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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2017
Methods and apparatus for shifted-wavelength photosynthetic energy harvesting and biomass production
Applicant:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Inventor:
Andreas Mershin, Cambridge, MA (US);
Assignee:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12M 1/00 (2006.01); C12M 1/22 (2006.01); C12N 13/00 (2006.01); C12N 1/12 (2006.01); C12N 1/20 (2006.01); C12M 1/36 (2006.01); C12M 1/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12M 23/10 (2013.01); C12M 31/02 (2013.01); C12M 35/02 (2013.01); C12M 41/06 (2013.01); C12M 41/48 (2013.01); C12N 1/12 (2013.01); C12N 1/20 (2013.01); C12N 13/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
One or more light sources may apply stimuli to a colony of organisms. The stimuli may include visible and non-visible light. The stimuli, taken together, may tend to favor survival of organisms that are adapted to perform photosynthesis which involves absorbing energy from infrared or ultraviolet light. In some cases, the set of stimuli may include illuminating the entire colony of organisms with green light, illuminating only a first portion of the colony with pulsed ultraviolet light, and illuminating only a second portion of the colony with pulsed infrared light.