US Patent Issued to HALDOR TOPSOE on Feb. 18 for "Production of glycolaldehyde by thermolytic fragmentation" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,473, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to HALDOR TOPSOE A/S (KGS. Lyngby, Denmark).

"Production of glycolaldehyde by thermolytic fragmentation" was invented by Christian Marup Osmundsen (Gentofte, Denmark) and Morten Boberg Larsen (Smorum, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for the production of glycolaldehyde by thermolytic fragmentation of a carbohydrate feedstock including mono- and/or di-saccharide(s) and a system suitable for performing the process. The process and the system are suitable for industrial application, and the process may be performed in a continuous process. The salt-depleted carbohydrate feedstock may...