US Patent Issued to DANISCO US on June 24 for "Method for increasing backset recycle in dry grind alcohol production" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,478, issued on June 24, was assigned to DANISCO US INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Method for increasing backset recycle in dry grind alcohol production" was invented by Gopal K. Chotani (Cupertino, Calif.), Jaclyn Diana Demartini (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jacob Andrew Latone (San Jose, Calif.), Vivek Sharma (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Jayarama K. Shetty (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a dry grind ethanol process in which post-distillation backset is subjected to aerobic fermentation to remove components that are inhibitory to an ethanolagen, such as yeast, allowing the utilization of an increased...