US Patent Issued to GranBio Intellectual Property Holdings on May 6 for "Methods and systems for enzymatic hydrolysis of pretreated biomass at high solids concentrations" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,731, issued on May 6, was assigned to GranBio Intellectual Property Holdings LLC (Thomaston, Ga.).

"Methods and systems for enzymatic hydrolysis of pretreated biomass at high solids concentrations" was invented by Theodora Retsina (Atlanta) and Ryan Zebroski (Fayetteville, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of enzymatically hydrolyzing pretreated lignocellulosic biomass at high solids concentration includes introducing pretreated biomass to a hydrolysis reactor, to hydrolyze the cellulose to glucose monomer and glucose oligomers, and circulating a liquid stream, from which glucose is removed to reduce glucose inhibition of c...