US Patent Issued to Alliance for Energy Innovation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology on March 31 for "Continuous processing of lignin for reduced solvent usage in reductive catalytic fractionation" (Colorado, New Jersey, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,113, issued on March 31, was assigned to Alliance for Energy Innovation LLC (Golden, Colo.) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Continuous processing of lignin for reduced solvent usage in reductive catalytic fractionation" was invented by Jacob S. Kruger (Arvada, Colo.), Gregg Tyler Beckham (Golden, Colo.), David Gregory Brandner (Golden, Colo.), Andrew Wolf Bartling (Golden, Colo.), Yuriy Roman (Cambridge, Mass.), Jun Hee Jang (Lakewood, Colo.), Nicholas Earl Thornburg (Denver) and Gregory George Facas (Moorestown, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are devices and methods for the effic...