US Patent Issued to VERTORO on Sept. 23 for "Method for obtaining a lignin oil composition using a compressed gas and acid assisted process" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,265, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to VERTORO B.V. (Geleen, Netherlands).

"Method for obtaining a lignin oil composition using a compressed gas and acid assisted process" was invented by Michael Dirk Boot (Geleen, Netherlands), Panagiotis Kouris (Geleen, Netherlands), Emiel Jan Maria Hensen (Geleen, Netherlands) and Xiaoming Huang (Geleen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for the production of a liquid lignin composition, in particular to a method for obtaining a lignin composition using a compressed gas and acid assisted process, wherein a lignocellulosic biomass feedstock is treated with a polar organic solv...