US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Feb. 10 for "Glucose production method and ethanol production method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,933, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Glucose production method and ethanol production method" was invented by Nozomi Shiobara (Tochigi-ken, Japan), Shohei Kinoshita (Tochigi-ken, Japan), Mizuho Doi (Tochigi-ken, Japan), Kenji Machida (Tochigi-ken, Japan) and Minoru Goto (Tochigi-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention can: efficiently and readily produce glucose from microalgae that accumulate starch in their cells; and obtain ethanol. During a preparation step of the glucose production method, microalgae are prepared on which a saccharifying enzyme acts on starch accumulated ...