ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,749, issued on June 3, was assigned to Blue Biofuels Inc. (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.).
"System to convert cellulosic materials into sugar and method of using the same" was invented by Benjamin Slager (Delray Beach, Fla.) and Peter Cohen (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for converting cellulose to sugar has a reaction chamber with a plurality of control components, and a control assembly. The control assembly is operatively connected to the reaction chamber, a drive assembly and control components to transmit and receive interoperability signals. The device has an inlet hopper with a detector, a crusher, an outlet...