ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,486, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to HBI S.R.L. (Bolzano, Italy).
"Process and plant for biomass treatment" was invented by Daniele Basso (Renon, Italy), Renato Pavanetto (Quinto Di Treviso, Italy), Flavio Manenti (Bolzano, Italy) and Kristiano Prifti (Bolzano, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a plant and process for biomass treatment, where the plant is configured to actuate said process which comprises:-a step A of thermochemical treatment of transformation of a biomass into a carbonaceous solid, where this transformation involves treating the biomass at a treatment temperature of between 150degdeg C. and 300deg C...