US Patent Issued to VIRENT on Nov. 4 for "Systems and methods for producing high purity aromatics from a mixed aromatic feed stream" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,879, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to VIRENT INC. (Madison, Wis.).

"Systems and methods for producing high purity aromatics from a mixed aromatic feed stream" was invented by Paul G. Blommel (Oregon, Wis.), Matthew Van Straten (Madison, Wis.) and Brice Dally (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods for producing aromatic compounds in high yield from a mixed aromatic feed stream. Also disclosed are systems and methods for producing aromatic compounds in high yield from oxygenated hydrocarbons such as carbohydrates, sugars, sugar alcohols, sugar degradation products, and the like...