US Patent Issued to UT-Battelle on June 3 for "Biomass fractionation method for producing biomass of varying ash content and uses thereof" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,884, issued on June 3, was assigned to UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

"Biomass fractionation method for producing biomass of varying ash content and uses thereof" was invented by Xianhui Zhao (Knoxville, Tenn.), Oluwafemi Oyedeji (Knoxville, Tenn.), Soydan Ozcan (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Halil Tekinalp (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Erin G. Webb (Luttrell, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for fractionating biomass material according to ash content, the method comprising: grinding the biomass material to produce a ground biomass and sieving the ground biomass through a first screen to yield: a) a first fraction of biomass particles...