MUMBAI, India, July 5 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202311087073 A) filed by Shoolini University Of Biotechnology And Management Sciences, Solan, Himachal Pradesh, on Dec. 20, 2023, for 'a novel method for utilizing agriculture waste in the production of organic acid.'
Inventor(s) include Nisha Devi; Dinesh Kumar; and Vinod Kumar.
The application for the patent was published on July 4, under issue no. 27/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention discloses a method for utilizing agricultural waste in the production of organic acids, focusing on apple pomace, a significant by-product obtained during apple juice processing, as a promising feedstock for biorefinery. Often discarded, apple pomace poses environmental concerns despite its richness in nutritionally vital compounds. In this invention, the inventors harness apple pomace to produce Itaconic acid. The fermentable sugars derived from apple pomace by-products are then employed in the synthesis of Itaconic acid (IA) using a modified strain of Aspergillus niger#99ichA, resulting in a yield of 11.49 g IA/100 g of apple pomace powder. This study introduces an improved enzymatic hydrolysis approach, maximizing reducing sugar extraction from apple pomace, and concurrently facilitating the biological conversion for efficient Itaconic acid production."
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