US Patent Issued to Archer Daniels Midland, DuPont Industrial Biosciences USA on March 25 for "Color stabilization of monomers and other reactants for forming bio-based polymers" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,325, issued on March 25, was assigned to Archer Daniels Midland Co. (Decatur, Ill.) and DuPont Industrial Biosciences USA LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Color stabilization of monomers and other reactants for forming bio-based polymers" was invented by Erik Hagberg (Decatur, Ill.), Chi Cheng Ma (Champaign, Ill.) and Kenneth F. Stensrud (Decatur, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and methods are provided for the production of bio-based polymers (e.g., polymers made from glucose), including polyesters, as well as end products resulting from such production, in which one or more color stabilizing additive compounds is utilized...