US Patent Issued to Alliance for Sustainable Energy, Colorado State University Research Foundation on April 22 for "Advanced anaerobic digestion to carboxylic acids" (American, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,346, issued on April 22, was assigned to Alliance for Sustainable Energy LLC (Golden, Colo.) and Colorado State University Research Foundation (Fort Collins, Colo.).

"Advanced anaerobic digestion to carboxylic acids" was invented by Violeta Sanchez Nogue (Manlleu, Spain), Eric M. Karp (Denver), Patrick Owen Saboe (Golden, Colo.), Lucas Hans Loetscher (Broomfield, Colo.) and Sybil Sharvelle (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method that includes utilizing a microorganism for the converting of a substrate to an acid contained in a mixture that includes the acid and water, maintaining ...