ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,589, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SixRing Inc. (Calgary, Canada).
"Optimization of chemical consumption in biomass delignification" was invented by Tenzin Leksmon (Calgary, Canada), Leah Fraiberg (Calgary, Canada), Emhemmed Youssef (Calgary, Canada) and Markus Weissenberger (Calgary, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, a process includes providing a system with a first vessel and a second vessel; providing a biomass comprising lignin, hemicellulose and cellulose fibers into said first vessel; providing an aqueous acidic composition comprising an acid; providing a modifier component; providing a peroxide componen...