US Patent Issued to Avantium Knowledge Centre on June 16 for "Process for producing glycols from carbohydrates and burning waste" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,655,081, issued on June 16, was assigned to Avantium Knowledge Centre B.V. (Amsterdam).

"Process for producing glycols from carbohydrates and burning waste" was invented by Davide Ansovini (Amsterdam), Benjamin McKay (Amsterdam) and Jagdeep Singh (Amsterdam).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for producing glycols from a carbohydrate source using a catalyst system, and which process can be carried out continuously in a reactor, and in which process a catalyst material is recovered from the reactor effluent. The reactor effluent is subjected to separation to obtain some valuable glycols, and one or more of the bottom streams comprisi...