US Patent Issued to Stora Enso on July 1 for "Process for the recovery of solvent and isolation of humin materials and compositions thereof" (American, Swedish, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,590, issued on July 1, was assigned to Stora Enso Oyj (Helsinki).

"Process for the recovery of solvent and isolation of humin materials and compositions thereof" was invented by Staffan Torssell (Bromma, Sweden), Marco Antonio Saucedo (Cambridge, Great Britain), Christopher Paul Dunckley (San Jose, Calif.) and Kenneth P. Keckler (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Novel processes for recovering solvents and isolating humin or humate materials from 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) and 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) pathway processes are described. In some embodiments, the process utilizes a thin film evaporator, such as a ...