US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California, NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS OF SANDIA on July 29 for "Use of ensiled biomass for increased efficiency of the pretreatment of biomass" (California, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,855, issued on July 29, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.) and NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS OF SANDIA LLC (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Use of ensiled biomass for increased efficiency of the pretreatment of biomass" was invented by Harsha D. Magurudeniya (Newport News, Va.), Alberto Rodriguez (Oakland, Calif.), Nawa Raj Baral (Hayward, Calif.), Blake A. Simmons (San Francisco) and John M. Gladden (Alameda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides for a method to deconstruct a biomass: the method comprising: (a) ensiling a biomass to produce comprising one o...