US Patent Issued to Novozymes on March 11 for "Processes for reducing lactic acid in a biofuel fermentation system and processes for producing a fermentation product" (Brazilian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,241, issued on March 11, was assigned to Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark).

"Processes for reducing lactic acid in a biofuel fermentation system and processes for producing a fermentation product" was invented by Armindo Ribeiro Gaspar (Rolesville, N.C.), Victor Gabriel Guadalupe Medina (Araucaria Parana, Brazil), Xin Li (Raleigh, N.C.), Kelly Cristina Leite Mulder (Araucaria Parana, Brazil) and Angela Shows (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a process for reducing and/or preventing an increase in lactic acid levels in a fermentation product production process, such as especially ethanol ...