US Patent Issued to AFYREN on July 1 for "Valorisation of potassium salts coproduced in fermentation processes" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,567, issued on July 1, was assigned to AFYREN (Saint-Beauzire, France).

"Valorisation of potassium salts coproduced in fermentation processes" was invented by Jeremy Jean-Paul Pessiot (La Charite sur Loire, France), Michael Frederic Pierre Roussel (Clermont-Ferrand, France) and Aurelien Antoine Bost (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to a method for preparing a mixture of solid potassium salts from a fermentation juice from a fermentation process for the production of chemical compounds in a pH-controlled fermentation medium by adding of a base comprising potassium hydroxide. The me...