US Patent Issued to Cargill on April 22 for "Processes and systems for catalytic manufacture of wax ester derivatives" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,350, issued on April 22, was assigned to Cargill Inc. (Wayzata, Minn.).

"Processes and systems for catalytic manufacture of wax ester derivatives" was invented by Jeff Addy (Chandler, Ariz.), James H. Brown (Chandler, Ariz.) and Clay Daly (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes for transesterifying wax esters. Implementations may include: providing a feedstock including wax esters, contacting the feedstock with a lipase, and catalytically transesterifying the wax esters in the feedstock with the lipase to form a transesterified product. An oxidative stability index (OSI) of the transesterified product may be greater ...