ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,072, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Zhejiang Huakang Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. (Quzhou, China) and Zhejiang University of Technology (Hangzhou, China).

"Method of improving biomass high-solid enzymatic hydrolysis rate" was invented by Mian Li (Santa Clara, Calif.), Zhiqian Liu (Quzhou, China), Xuhao Zeng (Quzhou, China), Changhui Hu (Quzhou, China), Jing Wang (Quzhou, China), Xue Cai (Quzhou, China), Xiaojian Zhang (Quzhou, China) and Yuguo Zheng (Quzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method of improving a biomass high-solid enzymatic hydrolysis rate. By screening particle sizes of the biomas...