ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,765, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to SixRing Inc. (Calgary, Canada).
"Cellulose for bioethanol production" was invented by Alejandra Enriquez (Calgary, Canada), Julie Greer (Calgary, Canada), Markus Weissenberger (Calgary, Canada) and Alexandra Ostaszewski (Calgary, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process to obtain glucose from a pretreated lignocellulosic biomass comprises providing a lignocellulosic biomass and contacting said lignocellulosic biomass to a modified Caro's acid composition for a period of time necessary to remove more than 98.5% of the lignin present in the lignocellulosic biomass and thus obtaining a soli...