US Patent Issued to SMARTFLOW TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 30 for "Systems for isolation and/or separation of products from production processes" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,479, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SMARTFLOW TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Sanford, N.C.).

"Systems for isolation and/or separation of products from production processes" was invented by Todd Benson (Sanford, N.C.), Kim Davis (Sanford, N.C.), Jason Bell (Sanford, N.C.) and James Kacmar (Sanford, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to separation of desired target products from biological, plant, and waste-type material, wherein the desired target products include renewable fuels such as ethanol, biobutanol, and biodiesel, wherein the separation is conducted with a cross-flow filtration system having the abili...