US Patent Issued to Cleantech Building Materials on July 15 for "Process for generating acid anhydrides" (North Carolina, Illinois, Louisiana, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,860, issued on July 15, was assigned to Cleantech Building Materials PLC (London).

"Process for generating acid anhydrides" was invented by Johnathan Gorke (Charlotte, N.C.), Brian Hashiguchi (Naperville, Ill.), Michael Konnick (Aurora, Ill.), Jeffrey Elks (Baton Rouge, La.), Jeremy Patt (Erie, Colo.) and Juan Gamboa (Brookfield, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of producing an anhydride of an organic mono-acid comprising contacting an organic mono-acid and a thermally regenerable anhydride to produce the anhydride of the organic mono-acid, and either a diacid of the regenerable anhydride, a partially hydrolyz...