US Patent Issued to UPM-KYMMENE on June 3 for "Method and an apparatus for an enzymatic hydrolysis, a liquid fraction and a solid fraction" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,950, issued on June 3, was assigned to UPM-KYMMENE Corp. (Helsinki).

"Method and an apparatus for an enzymatic hydrolysis, a liquid fraction and a solid fraction" was invented by Juha Tamper (Levanen, Finland) and Sami Turunen (Lappeenranta, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method and an apparatus for an enzymatic hydrolysis in which plant based raw material is hydrolysed by means of enzymes in at least one enzymatic hydrolysis stage. A plant based feed (1) is fed to the enzymatic hydrolysis stage (2) in which the plant based feed is hydrolysed. A liquid fraction (3) comprising carbohydrates is separated from a solid fracti...