US Patent Issued to BurCell Technologies on July 29 for "Processes and systems to produce renewable energy and fiber from cellulose-rich waste materials" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,715, issued on July 29, was assigned to BurCell Technologies Inc. (Kennesaw, Ga.).

"Processes and systems to produce renewable energy and fiber from cellulose-rich waste materials" was invented by Luca Zullo (Excelsior, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some variations provide a process to produce renewable biogas and cellulosic fiber from a cellulose-rich feedstock, comprising: obtaining a cellulose-rich feedstock that is reduced in concentration of impurities and has a length less than 5 inches; feeding the cellulose-rich feedstock and water to a vacuum steam-explosion vessel, thereby generating a first cellulose-rich intermedia...