US Patent Issued to Indian Oil, Department Of Biotechnology on April 21 for "Process for xylitol production" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,851, issued on April 21, was assigned to Indian Oil Corporation Limited (Mumbai, India) and Department Of Biotechnology (New Delhi).

"Process for xylitol production" was invented by Ajay Kumar Sharma (Faridabad, India), Manas Ranjan Swain (Faridabad, India), Ajit Singh (Faridabad, India), Anshu Shankar Mathur (Faridabad, India) and Ravi Prakash Gupta (Faridabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a process for production of xylitol. More particularly, the present invention provides an improved process for high titer xylitol production from pure xylose. The process of the present invention results i...