US Patent Issued to Renewable Energy Group on April 15 for "Hydrodeoxygenation of phenolic lipids and renewable hydrocarbon fuels produced therefrom" (Iowa, Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,906, issued on April 15, was assigned to Renewable Energy Group Inc. (Ames, Iowa).

"Hydrodeoxygenation of phenolic lipids and renewable hydrocarbon fuels produced therefrom" was invented by Jared Brown (Ankeny, Iowa), Ramin Abhari (Bixby, Okla.), Martin Haverly (Ames, Iowa), David A. Slade (Ames, Iowa) and Dhananjay Ghonasgi (Bartlesville, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to renewable hydrocarbons, and more particularly to biomass-based diesel fuel produced in a process including hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) of phenolic lipids. The process may generally include combining a phenolic lipid and a hydrocarbon diluent...