US Patent Issued to Alliance for Sustainable Energy on April 29 for "Systems and methods for producing nitriles" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,390, issued on April 29, was assigned to Alliance for Sustainable Energy LLC (Golden, Colo.).

"Systems and methods for producing nitriles" was invented by Eric M. Karp (Denver), Gregg Tyler Beckham (Golden, Colo.), Derek Richard Vardon (Lakewood, Colo.) and Todd R. Eaton (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aspect of the present disclosure is a method that includes a first reacting a molecule from at least one of a carboxylic acid, an ester of a carboxylic acid, and/or an anhydride with ammonia to form a nitrile, where the first reacting is catalyzed using an acid catalyst. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the molec...