US Patent Issued to NICCA CHEMICAL on Aug. 5 for "Cooking accelerator for lignocellulose materials and method for producing pulp using same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,728, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to NICCA CHEMICAL Co. LTD. (Fukui, Japan).

"Cooking accelerator for lignocellulose materials and method for producing pulp using same" was invented by Takashi Tanaka (Fukui, Japan), Kouzi Takai (Fukui, Japan) and Haruhiko Toyohara (Fukui, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digestion accelerator which is safe and has a high digestion acceleration effect is provided. The digestion accelerator according to the present invention contains tannin or a polyphenol compound that is a hydrolysate of the tannin, a salt of the polyphenol compound, or ester of the polyphenol compound."

The patent was filed ...