US Patent Issued to Furanix Technologies on April 22 for "Process for producing 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid from ethers of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,090, issued on April 22, was assigned to Furanix Technologies B.V. (Amsterdam).

"Process for producing 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid from ethers of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural" was invented by Hendrikus Jacob Baars (Amsterdam), Jan Hendrik Blank (Amsterdam), Jeffrey John Kolstad (Amsterdam) and Ana Sofia Vagueiro De Sousa Dias (Amsterdam).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for producing a carboxylic acid composition including 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid, including the steps: a) oxidizing an oxidizable compound including 5-alkoxymethylfurfural in an oxidation reactor in the presence of a saturated organic acid solvent having from 2 to 6 c...