ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,115, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Cargill Inc. (Wayzata, Minn.).
"Recovery of 3-hydroxypropionic acid" was invented by Timothy Walter Abraham (Minnetonka, Minn.), Erik Allen (Minneapolis), John J. Hahn (Apple Valley, Minn.), Paraskevas Tsobanakis (Mendota Heights, Minn.), Eric Christopher Bohnert (Minneapolis) and Christopher Lawrence Frank (Maple Grove, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for recovering a composition enriched in 3-hydroxypropionic acid from a fermentation broth comprising 3-hydroxypropionic acid and/or salts thereof comprises the steps of: (a) providing the fermentation broth having a pH of from abo...