US Patent Issued to Alliance for Sustainable Energy on Oct. 28 for "Fuels and methods of making the same" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,497, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Alliance for Sustainable Energy LLC (Golden, Colo.).

"Fuels and methods of making the same" was invented by Derek Richard Vardon (Lakewood, Colo.), Nabila Asem Huq (Boulder, Colo.), Randy D. Cortright (Boulder, Colo.), Zia Abdullah (Littleton, Colo.), Glenn Richard Hafenstine (Wheat Ridge, Colo.), Xiangchen Huo (Golden, Colo.) and Huong Thi Thanh Nguyen (Arvada, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method that includes processing, in a hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) reactor, at least one of a VFA-derived ketone and/or a co-processing stream to produce a composition...