US Patent Issued on July 7 for "Processes and systems for catalytic manufacture of wax ester derivatives" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,184, issued on July 7.

"Processes and systems for catalytic manufacture of wax ester derivatives" was invented by Jeff Addy (Chandler, Ariz.), Clay Daly (Chandler, Ariz.) and James H Brown (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes for transesterifying wax esters. Implementations may include: providing a feedstock including wax esters, contacting the feedstock with a lipase, and catalytically transesterifying the wax esters in the feedstock with the lipase to form a transesterified product. An oxidative stability index (OSI) of the transesterified product may be greater than an OSI of the feedstock."

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