ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,092, issued on March 24, was assigned to Mybiotech GmbH (Ueberherm, Germany).
"Use of a microjet reactor for processing biomass" was invented by Bernd Baumstuemmler (Saarlouis, Germany), Akif Emre Tuereli (Ueberherrn, Germany), Felix Penth (Lebach, Germany), Daniel Mueller (Ueberherrn, Germany) and Rudolf Krumbholz (Merchweiler, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to the use of microjet reactor for processing biomass. The cell lysis of flowable biomass is thereby carried out by means of multiple high-speed liquid jets which collide with one another, wherein the liquid jets contain the cells or consist wholly...