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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2016

Filed:

Oct. 25, 2013
Applicant:

The University of Kentucky Research Foundation, Lexington, KY (US);

Inventors:

Sue E. Nokes, Lexington, KY (US);

Bert C. Lynn, Nicholasville, KY (US);

Stephen Rankin, Lexington, KY (US);

Barbara Knutson, Lexington, KY (US);

Michael D. Montross, Lexington, KY (US);

Michael Flythe, Lexington, KY (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12P 7/08 (2006.01); C12P 7/10 (2006.01); C12P 7/06 (2006.01); C12P 19/02 (2006.01); C12P 7/16 (2006.01); C12P 7/28 (2006.01); C12P 7/52 (2006.01); C12P 7/54 (2006.01); C12P 19/14 (2006.01); C12P 21/00 (2006.01); C12P 39/00 (2006.01); C12N 9/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12P 19/02 (2013.01); C12N 9/2437 (2013.01); C12P 7/10 (2013.01); C12P 7/16 (2013.01); C12P 7/28 (2013.01); C12P 7/52 (2013.01); C12P 7/54 (2013.01); C12P 19/14 (2013.01); C12P 21/00 (2013.01); C12P 39/00 (2013.01); C12P 2201/00 (2013.01); C12P 2203/00 (2013.01); Y02E 50/10 (2013.01); Y02E 50/16 (2013.01); Y02P 20/52 (2015.11);
Abstract

A method for on-farm processing a biomass feedstock into a useful industrial chemicals includes the steps of (a) delignifying the biomass feedstock to produce a delignified biomass, (b) subjecting the delignified biomass to cellulase production, (c) subjecting the delignified biomass with attached cellulase to simultaneous cellulolytic and solventogenic reactions to produce useful industrial chemicals (d) collecting and separating the useful industrial chemical from the fermentation broth and (e) collecting the fermentation residues.


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