US Patent Issued to University of Cincinnati on Oct. 7 for "Prehydrolysate fermentability in biomass pretreatment" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,345, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati).

"Prehydrolysate fermentability in biomass pretreatment" was invented by Maobing Tu (Mason, Ohio), Yu Zhang (Cincinnati) and Yequan Sheng (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for pretreating lignocellulosic biomass to improve fermentability is disclosed. The method involves reacting lignocellulosic biomass with an acidic mixture while heating at a temperature from about 120deg C. to about 200deg C. to produce a prehydrolysate mixture. The acidic mixture includes a dilute acid and nucleophilic proteins, hydrolyzed amino acids or combinations the...