US Patent Issued to The Coca-Cola, Changchun Meihe Science and Technology Development on Sept. 8 for "Recovering mono-ethylene glycol" (Finnish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,173, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to The Coca-Cola Co. (Atlanta) and Changchun Meihe Science and Technology Development Co. Ltd. (Changchun, China).

"Recovering mono-ethylene glycol" was invented by Isko Kajanto (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for recovering mono-ethylene glycol from a mixture feed comprising bio-derived diols is disclosed. The mixture feed comprises mono-ethylene glycol in an amount of at least 80 weight-% of the total weight of the mixture feed. The method comprises: -providing the mixture feed into a distillation column, wherein a distillation process is carried out, wherein the distilla...