ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,848, issued on May 19, was assigned to ENEOS Corp. (Tokyo) and Oji Holdings Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method for producing ethanol from lignocellulosic raw material" was invented by Yuichi Takahashi (Tokyo), Kohei Ide (Tokyo), Masahiro Niwa (Tokyo), Miyuki Kanezawa (Tokyo), Shoichi Ikemizu (Tokyo), Atsushi Furujo (Tokyo), Naoya Azumi (Tokyo), Akira Tsukamoto (Tokyo) and Shingo Sekizawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method for efficiently producing ethanol from a lignocellulosic raw material. More specifically, the present invention provides a method for producing ethanol from a lignocellulosic raw materi...