ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,978, issued on April 14, was assigned to NUSEED GLOBAL INNOVATION LTD. (Manchester, Great Britain).
"Process for producing lipids" was invented by Thomas Vanhercke (O'Connor, Australia), James Robertson Petrie (New South Wales, Australia), Anna El Tahchy (Scullin, Australia), Surinder Pal Singh (Downer, Australia) and Qing Liu (Giralang, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to processes for extracting lipid from vegetative plant parts such as leaves, stems, roots and tubers, and for producing industrial products such as hydrocarbon products from the lipids. Preferred industrial products include alky...