US Patent Issued to United Arab Emirates University on Aug. 19 for "Lignin extraction from lignocellulosic biomass using fruit-based natural solvent" (Emirati Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,808, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to United Arab Emirates University (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates).

"Lignin extraction from lignocellulosic biomass using fruit-based natural solvent" was invented by Mohsin Raza (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates), Basim Abu-Jdayil (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates) and Arafat Husain (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for extracting lignin from lignocellulosic biomass using a non-choline chloride based natural deep eutectic solvent (NADES) formed from Citric Acid (CA) and Fructose (Fr) comprises mixing the biomass with the NADES, obtaining a lignin-NADES suspension, lyoph...