US Patent Issued to Fluid Quip Technologies on Jan. 13 for "System and method for producing a sugar stream using membrane filtration" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,881, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Fluid Quip Technologies LLC (Springfield, Ohio).

"System and method for producing a sugar stream using membrane filtration" was invented by Neal Jakel (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) and Albert Pollmeier (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved dry grind system and method for producing a sugar stream from grains or similar carbohydrate sources and/or residues, such as for biofuel production, using membrane filtration. In particular, a sugar/carbohydrate stream, which includes a desired Dextrose Equivalent (DE) where DE describes the degree of conversion of starch to dextrose (aka glu...