US Patent Issued to ARCHER-DANIELS-MIDLAND on March 24 for "Processes and cataylsts for the selective hydrogenation of compounds having carbonyl carbon atoms" (North Carolina, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,831, issued on March 24, was assigned to ARCHER-DANIELS-MIDLAND COMPANY (Decatur, Ill.).

"Processes and cataylsts for the selective hydrogenation of compounds having carbonyl carbon atoms" was invented by James Brazdil (Leland, N.C.) and Chi-Cheng Ma (Champaign, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Selective hydrogenation processes are disclosed that can upgrade impure feeds, such as those obtained from biomass and containing a number of small (e.g., 2-6 carbon atom) molecules having aldehyde and/or ketone carbon atoms. For example, whereas glycolaldehyde and its methylated derivative, hydroxyacetone (acetol) are both high value inte...