US Patent Issued to NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST-NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNO on Nov. 25 for "Acidic elimination for bio-based aromatics" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,787, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST-NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNO ('S-Gravenhage, Netherlands).

"Acidic elimination for bio-based aromatics" was invented by Marc Crockatt ('s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands), Jan Comelis Van Der Waal (Delft, Netherlands) and Johan Urbanus ('s-Gravenhage, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for the preparation of an aromatic product is disclosed which includes a step b) of contacting one or more intermediate compounds with a further acid to form the aromatic product. The intermediate compounds can be obtained in step a) that includes contac...