ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,967, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to JGC HOLDINGS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Method for recovering sugar" was invented by Daisuke Taneda (Ibaraki, Japan), Shohei Okino (Ibaraki, Japan) and Yoshiki Ueno (Ibaraki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of recovering a sugar by separating a fermentation inhibitor and the sugar from a sugar solution containing the fermentation inhibitor, the method including: bringing the sugar solution containing the fermentation inhibitor into contact with a basic anion exchange resin filled into a column, followed by separation of the fermentation inhibitor and the sugar by a difference in re...