US Patent Issued to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY on May 20 for "Polysaccharide derivative production method and lignin derivative production method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,973, issued on May 20, was assigned to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY (Kanazawa, Japan).

"Polysaccharide derivative production method and lignin derivative production method" was invented by Daisuke Hirose (Kanazawa, Japan), Samuel Budi Wardhana Kusuma (Kanazawa, Japan), Chie Maruyama (Kanazawa, Japan), Naoki Wada (Kanazawa, Japan) and Kenji Takahashi (Kanazawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a polysaccharide derivative in which the use of a reagent such as an acid catalyst is not needed and a reaction can be smoothly progressed without...