US Patent Issued to BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY on May 20 for "Methods for cellulose hydrolysis using sulfonated polyaromatic catalysts" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,876, issued on May 20, was assigned to BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY (East Lansing, Mich.).

"Methods for cellulose hydrolysis using sulfonated polyaromatic catalysts" was invented by Mikhail Redko (Ann Arbor, Mich.), James E. Jackson (Haslett, Mich.), Christopher M. Saffron (Okemos, Mich.) and Kyle Matthew Kilponen (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for hydrolyzing cellulosic material includes combining the cellulosic material with a sulfonated polyaromatic catalyst in water to at least partially hydrolyze the cellulosic material and to form a monosaccharide hydrolysis product, thereby forming a rea...