US Patent Issued to Quino Energy, President and Fellows of Harvard College on April 7 for "System and process for anthraquinone functionalization" (California, Maryland, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,574, issued on April 7, was assigned to Quino Energy Inc. (San Leandro, Calif.) and President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.).

"System and process for anthraquinone functionalization" was invented by Eugene Beh (Menlo Park, Calif.), Meisam Bahari (Alameda, Calif.), Min Wu (Greenbelt, Md.), Michael Aziz (Cambridge, Mass.) and Roy Gordon (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to the synthetic functionalization of an anthraquinone molecule that is substituted with at least one hydroxyl or amino group. In some aspects of the invention a mixture containing said anthraquinone starting mater...