US Patent Issued to INDIAN OIL, DEPARTMENT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY on Dec. 9 for "Method for producing levulinic acid" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,159, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to INDIAN OIL CORPORATION LIMITED (India) and DEPARTMENT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY (India).

"Method for producing levulinic acid" was invented by Alok Satlewal (Faridabad, India), Ruchi Agrawal (Faridabad, India), Ravindra Kumar (Faridabad, India), Ravi Prakash Gupta (Faridabad, India) and Sankara Sri Venkata Ramakumar (Faridabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a process for producing levulinic acid from the technical lignin. The technical lignin is rich in lignin and ash and do not have any other use and usually incinerated as a waste management strategy. During the i...