ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,414, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to NOVOZYMES A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark).
"Process of extracting oil from thin stillage" was invented by Michael John Akerman (Wake Forest, N.C.), Nathaniel Edward Kreel (Louisburg, N.C.), Melissa Carrie Hooss (Franklinton, N.C.) and Xinyu Shen (Wake Forest, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process of recovering oil, comprising (a) converting a starch-containing material into dextrins with an alpha-amylase; (b) saccharifying the dextrins using a carbohydrate source generating enzyme to form a sugar; (c) fermenting the sugar in a fermentation medium into a fermentation product using a fermenting...