MUMBAI, India, June 20 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202527023333 A) filed by Sixring Inc., Calgary, Canada, on March 16, for 'improvements in biomass fermentation into ethanol.'
Inventor(s) include Ostaszewski, Alexandra; Greer, Julie; Enriquez, Alejandra; Wynnyk, Kyle G.; Corbett, Andrew; and Weissenberger, Markus.
The application for the patent was published on June 20, under issue no. 25/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A method of obtaining ethanol from a lignocellulosic biomass where said method comprises the following steps: Step 1: delignification of a lignocellulosic biomass using a modified Caro's acid; Step 2: recovering a solid portion of the delignification reaction mixture, wherein said solid portion comprises a substantially hemicellulose-free cellulosic component which comprises at most, up to 15 % w/w hemicellulose; Step 3: exposing the recovered solid portion of the resulting reaction mixture to an enzyme mix comprising cellulase enzymes to create a saccharification system which breaks down the cellulose into a saccharified composition, e.g., oligosaccharides Step 4: feeding the saccharified composition to an organism, such as yeast, with the ability to ferment sugars into ethanol."
The patent application was internationally filed on Aug. 18, 2023, under International application No.PCT/CA2023/051096.
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