US Patent Issued to School Judicial Person Ikutoku Gakuen on Sept. 15 for "Method for producing terephthalic acid from biomass resource, and method for producing polyester from biomass resource" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,729, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to School Judicial Person Ikutoku Gakuen (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Method for producing terephthalic acid from biomass resource, and method for producing polyester from biomass resource" was invented by Seiji Nakagame (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide a method that has less number of steps, improves the yield of terephthalic acid, and can inexpensively produce terephthalic acid from a biomass resource, while reducing the amount of energy consumption, and a method for producing polyester. The method for producing terephthalic acid comprises...