ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,421, issued on June 24, was assigned to Harbin Institute of Technology (Heilongjiang, China).

"Biohydrogen production device of corn stalks based on synchronous saccharification and fermentation and hydrogen production method thereof" was invented by Jie Ding (Heilongjiang, China), Nanqi Ren (Heilongjiang, China), Bingfeng Liu (Heilongjiang, China) and Shanshan Yang (Heilongjiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A biohydrogen production device of corn stalks based on synchronous saccharification and fermentation and a hydrogen production method thereof are provided. The biohydrogen production device has a vertical fermenter, an ...