US Patent Issued to ARCHER-DANIELS-MIDLAND on Sept. 8 for "Oxidative pretreatment of carbohydrate dehydration products comprising humins" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,187, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ARCHER-DANIELS-MIDLAND COMPANY (Decatur, Ill.).

"Oxidative pretreatment of carbohydrate dehydration products comprising humins" was invented by Andrew Ingram (Champaign, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes for oxidative pretreatment of carbohydrate dehydration products are disclosed, which relate to the discovery that functional groups of humins, such as those that result in, or lead to, color formation (e.g., aldehyde groups and/or groups having conjugated double bonds) may be more readily converted by oxidation (in some cases "bleached") than FDCA-forming furanics. This selective ox...