US Patent Issued to Fluid Quip Technologies on Dec. 2 for "Systems and methods for producing a sugar stream" (Iowa, Ohio, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,522, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Fluid Quip Technologies LLC (Springfield, Ohio).

"Systems and methods for producing a sugar stream" was invented by Neal Jakel (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), John Kwik (Bellbrook, Ohio), Michael Franko (Denver) and Andrew Whalen (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved dry grind system and method for producing a sugar stream from grains or similar carbohydrate sources and/or residues, such as for biofuel production. In particular, a sugar/carbohydrate stream, which includes a desired Dextrose Equivalent (DE) where DE describes the degree of conversion of starch to dextrose (aka glucose) and/...