US Patent Issued to ARCHER-DANIELS-MIDLAND on June 2 for "Processes for preparing C-4 sugars and ketose sugars" (Illinois, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,921, issued on June 2, was assigned to ARCHER-DANIELS-MIDLAND COMPANY (Decatur, Ill.).

"Processes for preparing C-4 sugars and ketose sugars" was invented by William J. Collins (Mt. Zion, Ill.), Josh Terrian (Mt. Zion, Ill.), James Brazdil (Leland, N.C.) and Kevin Martin (Mt. Zion, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various processes for preparing C4 aldoses and/or ketones thereof are described. Various processes are described for preparing C4 aldoses and/or ketones thereof from feed compositions comprising glycolaldehyde. Also, various processes for preparing useful downstream products and intermediates, such as erythritol and eryth...