ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,879, issued on July 21, was assigned to VERSALIS S.P.A. (San Donato Milanese, Italy).

"Process for the preparation of a sugar product and a fermentation product" was invented by Maaike Appeldoorn (San Donato Milanese, Italy) and Bertus Noordam (San Donato Milanese, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is a process for the preparation of a sugar product from cellulosic material and a process for the preparation of a fermentation product from cellulosic material."

The patent was filed on April 5, 2022, under Application No. 18/553,977.

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