US Patent Issued on Feb. 17 for "Processes for converting biomass into high-value products" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,022, issued on Feb. 17.

"Processes for converting biomass into high-value products" was invented by Mark Holtzapple (College Station, Texas), Sagar Lonkar (Hillsboro, India), Pratik Darvekar (Philadelphia, India), Samarpita Roy (Mumbai, India), Cesar Granda (College Station, Texas), Trent Benefield (Houston), Jeremy Seidel (Berkeley, Calif.), Victoria Ehlinger (Berkeley, Calif.), Scott Wellington (Bellaire, Calif.) and Tyler Mann (Baytown, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A biomass processing system is disclosed whereby a counter flow path is provided for recovering yielded product from at least two fermentation stages. In certai...