ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,115, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Fluid Quip Technologies LLC (Springfield, Ohio).
"System and method for producing a sugar stream" 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 biochemical production. In particular, after saccharification and prior to a sugar conversion process, a sugar/carbohydrate stream is removed from a saccharified stream. The sugar/carbohydrate stream includes a desired Dextrose Equivalent (D...