ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,975, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to DTA LLC (Tamarac, Fla.).
"Biogas and residue processing from thin stillage" was invented by Manuel Maximiliano Ron (Rio Cuarto, Argentina), Juan Matias Cordoba (Rio Cuarto, Argentina) and Manuel Otero Seyfarth (Rio Cuarto, Argentina).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes, systems and equipment are for treating a digestate resulting from the thin stillage of a bioethanol plant. They can include a decarbonizer system to reduce the carbon and water footprint in an ethanol plant and associated biogas plant by treating a digestate stream resulting from a thin stillage digester. The treatment inc...