US Patent Issued to Savor Foods on Sept. 16 for "System and method for production of synthetic fatty acids" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,772, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Savor Foods Ltd. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and method for production of synthetic fatty acids" was invented by Kathleen Alexander (San Jose, Calif.) and Ian McKay (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a fatty acid can include: receiving a hydrocarbon sample derived from at least one of carbon dioxide, methane, coal, biomass, or other suitable carbon feedstock, oxidizing the hydrocarbon sample to form oxygenated hydrocarbons, optionally separating different oxygenated species from the oxygenated hydrocarbons, optionally fractioning the oxygenated hydrocarbon...