US Patent Issued to INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE POUR L'AGRICULTURE L'ALIMENTATION ET L'ENVIRONNEMENT, IFP Energies Nouvelles, Agro Industries Recherche Et Developpement on Oct. 28 for "Process for treating lignocellulosic biomass" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,711, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE POUR L'AGRICULTURE L'ALIMENTATION ET L'ENVIRONNEMENT (Paris), IFP Energies Nouvelles (Rueil-Malmaison, France) and Agro Industries Recherche Et Developpement (Pomacle, France).

"Process for treating lignocellulosic biomass" was invented by Meriem Bouras (Rueil-Malmaison, France), Caroline Aymard (Rueil-Malmaison, France) and Mathieu Aragones (Rueil-Malmaison, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a process for treating lignocellulosic biomass, successively comprising b) a step of pretreatment of the biomass placed beforehand und...