US Patent Issued to Braskem on July 7 for "Process for the recovery of low-boiling point components from an ethanol stream" (Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,183, issued on July 7, was assigned to Braskem S.A. (Sao Paulo).

"Process for the recovery of low-boiling point components from an ethanol stream" was invented by Renata Pinto Da Silva Matos (Sao Paulo), Thiago Bezerra Taketa (Sao Paulo), Felipe Galzerani (Paulinia, Brazil) and Adler Gomes Moura (Sao Paulo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a process for the production of ethanol and one or more low boiling compound from a fermentable carbon source. The ethanol and the low boiling compound(s) are produced using an ethanol-producing yeast modified to further produce the one or more low boiling point compounds. In on...