ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,753, issued on July 29, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).
"Co-solvent to produce reactive intermediates from biomass" was invented by Charles M. Cai (Riverside, Calif.), Charles E. Wyman (Riverside, Calif.), Taiying Zhang (Riverside, Calif.) and Rajeev Kumar (Riverside, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a system for production of reactive intermediates from lignocellulosic biomass. The reactive intermediates can be used as platform chemicals for biological conversions or can be further catalytically upgraded to be used as "drop in" reagents for fuels. The disclo...