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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2023

Filed:

Jul. 24, 2020
Applicant:

Lanzatech, Inc., Skokie, IL (US);

Inventors:

Sean Dennis Simpson, Skokie, IL (US);

Allan Haiming Gao, Skokie, IL (US);

Robert John Conrado, Skokie, IL (US);

James Daniel Winkler, Skokie, IL (US);

Alexander Paul Mueller, Skokie, IL (US);

Steven Brown, Skokie, IL (US);

Loan Phuong Tran, Skokie, IL (US);

Michael Koepke, Skokie, IL (US);

Christophe Daniel Mihalcea, Skokie, IL (US);

Assignee:

LanzaTech, Inc., Skokie, IL (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12P 7/04 (2006.01); C12P 39/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12P 7/04 (2013.01); C12P 39/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

The disclosure relates to the combination of a primary fermentation that converts gas to acetate with a secondary fermentation that converts acetate to a target product. Preferably, the gas contains carbon dioxide, such that the disclosure enables the fixation of carbon dioxide into useful products. The fermentations may be any combination of aerobic and anaerobic, batch and continuous. The fermenting microorganisms may typically be bacterial or fungal.


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