ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,259, issued on March 31, was assigned to WENEW CARBOLOGY LLC (Charlottesville, Va.).

"Systems and/or methods for producing products from crop materials" was invented by Matthew D. Merrill (Charlottesville, Va.), Gregory Simms (Afton, Va.) and Khanh Dang (Ashburn, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain exemplary embodiments can provide systems and/or methods for producing dried biomass materials, such as from bales of biomass. Biomass materials can be converted into, e.g., pellets, briquettes, cubes, and/or other products with dried and/or densified states. These dried, densified products can be used for, e.g., bioenergy and/or a...