US Patent Issued to NIKKISO, TOHOKU UNIVERSITY on Oct. 27 for "Lactic acid adsorbent and method for removing lactic acid" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,680, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to NIKKISO Co. LTD. (Tokyo) and TOHOKU UNIVERSITY (Sendai, Japan).

"Lactic acid adsorbent and method for removing lactic acid" was invented by Toshiaki Yoshioka (Sendai, Japan), Tomohito Kameda (Sendai, Japan), Fumihiko Kitagawa (Kanazawa, Japan), Yoichi Jimbo (Kanazawa, Japan) and Masayuki Kondo (Kanazawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lactic acid adsorbent includes a layered double hydroxide that contains multiple metal hydroxide layers and also contains anions and water molecules held between the metal hydroxide layers. The anions include (i) an amino acid such as glutamine, (ii) a dip...