US Patent Issued to Regents of the University of Minnesota on Sept. 15 for "Liquid plasma discharge device and method for biodiesel synthesis using same" (Arkansas, Idaho, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,499, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis).

"Liquid plasma discharge device and method for biodiesel synthesis using same" was invented by Xiao Wu (Moscow, Idaho), Shaobo Deng (Eden Prairie, Minn.) and Jun Zhu (Fayetteville, Ark.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process comprises feeding a stream of reactant compounds to a reactor and discharging a liquid plasma into the reactant stream in the reactor, wherein the plasma initiates or accelerates a reaction of the reactant compounds to form a product composition. The reactor can comprise one or more chambers, a high-voltage electrode...