US Patent Issued to HEFEI LEAF BIOTECH on April 15 for "Method for preparing 5-hydroxymethylfurfural" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,713, issued on April 15, was assigned to HEFEI LEAF BIOTECH Co. LTD. (Anhui, China).

"Method for preparing 5-hydroxymethylfurfural" was invented by Hai Xu (Hefei, China), Qiang Xu (Heifei, China), Sanxi Yu (Hefei, China) and Xinglong Li (Hefei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application discloses a method for preparing 5-hydroxymethylfurfural and belongs to the technical field of synthesis of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural, mainly using biomass sugar as raw material and catalyzing the sugar to prepare 5-hydroxymethylfurfural in a tubular reactor filled with catalyst particles. In the application, the preparation of the humin-suppor...