ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,736, issued on July 1, was assigned to ST Equipment & Technology LLC (Needham, Mass.).
"Process for protein enrichment of dried distillers grains using a tribo-electrostatic separator device" was invented by Natsuki Barber (Medway, Mass.), Kyle P. Flynn (Moseley, Va.) and Abhishek Gupta (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tribo-electrostatic separation process for fractionating a feed mixture derived from dried distiller's grains (DDG) or distiller's dried grains and mixed with solubles (DDGS) is disclosed."
The patent was filed on May 8, 2020, under Application No. 17/609,305.
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