ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,071, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to INVENTURE RENEWABLES INC. (Tuscaloosa, Ala.).
"Methods for the production of ferulic acid" was invented by Cory O'Neil Blanchard (Birmingham, Ala.), William Rusty Sutterlin (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) and Ryan Alexander Long (Northport, Ala.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods or processes for producing ferulic acid from a plant material, for example, a rice bran or its derivatives. Provided are methods comprising an ion swapping and solvent extraction process followed by a chromatographic separation operations that are coupled into a process which functions to recover a fraction rich in...