ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,308, issued on May 13, was assigned to SEKISUI CHEMICAL Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Ethanol" was invented by Kokoro Hamachi (Tsukuba, Japan), Noritoshi Yagihashi (Tsukuba, Japan), Haruka Nishiyama (Tsukuba, Japan) and Kazuto Natsuyama (Tsukuba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a novel and practical alcohol and derivatives thereof which have more industrial value than existing petrochemical raw materials. The present disclosure further provides ethanol, characterized in that a peak in gas chromatography measured by gas chromatograph mass spectrometry (GC/MS) has at least one peak with a retention time...