US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on Oct. 27 for "Enhanced extraction of natural products from biomass" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,650, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.).

"Enhanced extraction of natural products from biomass" was invented by Vijay Singh (Champaign, Ill.), Shivali Banerjee (Urbana, Ill.) and Erik Sacks (Urbana, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Miscanthus x giganteus is a widely recognized bioenergy crop that finds potential applications in a biorefinery for the production of a wide range of biofuels and biochemicals. This disclosure focuses upon the quantification of the total anthocyanin concentration in miscanthus. Hydrothermal pretreatment was studied for recovering anthocy...