US Patent Issued on July 29 for "Method of manufacturing sugar cane polyvinyl alcohol" (Arizona, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,716, issued on July 29.

"Method of manufacturing sugar cane polyvinyl alcohol" was invented by Garrett Valentino (Scottsdale, Ariz.), George Liu (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and James Reinertson (Rye, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing sugar cane polyvinyl alcohol wherein sugar cane bagasse is processed into polyvinyl alcohol. Processing raw materials including sugar cane bagasse and deionized water. Enzymatically hydrolyzing and using saccharification on the sugar cane bagasse to obtain sugar cane bagasse enzymatic hydrolysate. Fermenting the sugar cane bagasse solution. Distilling the fermented sugar cane bagasse ...