US Patent Issued to New Energy Blue on Sept. 23 for "Methods of processing lignocellulosic biomass using single-stage autohydrolysis and enzymatic hydrolysis with C5 bypass and post-hydrolysis" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,536, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to New Energy Blue LLC (Lancaster, Pa.).

"Methods of processing lignocellulosic biomass using single-stage autohydrolysis and enzymatic hydrolysis with C5 bypass and post-hydrolysis" was invented by Jan Larsen (Tommerup, Denmark), Niels Nielsen Poulsen (Vojens, Denmark), Martin Dan Jeppesen (Odense V, Denmark) and Kit Kellebjerg Mogensen (Fredericia, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates, in general, to methods of processing Lignocellulosic biomass to fermentable sugars and to methods that rely on hydrothermal pretreatment. Xylose monomer yields comparable to those achieve...