Patents by Inventor ADAM BERNFELD

ADAM BERNFELD has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10494597
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to methods, approaches, devices, equipment, and systems for minimizing or reducing contamination in facilities implementing fermentation or distillation processes. In embodiments, the facility is a biofuel plant that produces fermentation product such as product alcohol like butanol. In some embodiments, the methods, approaches, devices, equipment, and systems are operable to implement clean in place contamination (CIP) mitigation techniques that can also include sterilize in place (SIP) mitigation techniques to decontaminate equipment including surfaces of the equipment that come in contact with materials used in the production of product alcohols. Other cleaning and contamination minimizing techniques are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC
    Inventors: Adam Bernfeld, Keith H. Burlew, Anthony R. Calabria, Duncan Coffey, Benjamin Fuchs, Ana Paula Goes, Adam David Henry, Walter Tamulis, Joseph J. Zaher
  • Publication number: 20170253846
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to methods, approaches, devices, equipment, and systems for minimizing or reducing contamination in facilities implementing fermentation or distillation processes. In embodiments, the facility is a biofuel plant that produces fermentation product such as product alcohol like butanol. In some embodiments, the methods, approaches, devices, equipment, and systems are operable to implement clean in place contamination (CIP) mitigation techniques that can also include sterilize in place (SIP) mitigation techniques to decontaminate equipment including surfaces of the equipment that come in contact with materials used in the production of product alcohols. Other cleaning and contamination minimizing techniques are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2015
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Adam Bernfeld, Keith H. Burlew, Anthony R. Calabria, Duncan Coffey, Benjamin Fuchs, Ana Paula Goes, Adam David Henry, Walter Tamulis, Joseph J. Zaher
  • Publication number: 20150267225
    Abstract: The present invention relates to processes and systems for the production of fermentation products such as alcohols. The present invention also provides methods for separating feed stream components for improved biomass processing and productivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventors: Stephane Francois Bazzana, Adam Bernfeld, Keith H. Burlew, Duncan Coffey, James Timothy Cronin, Benjamin Fuchs, John W. Hallam, Adam Jones, David J. Lowe, Brian Michael Roesch, Mathias E. Stolarski, James Gregory Wood, Joseph J. Zaher
  • Patent number: 9109196
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the production of fermentation products such as alcohols including ethanol and butanol, and processes employing in situ product removal methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC
    Inventors: Stephane Francois Bazzana, Adam Bernfeld, Keith H. Burlew, James Timothy Cronin, Michael Charles Grady, Brian Michael Roesch, Joseph J. Zaher, Raymond Richard Zolandz
  • Publication number: 20140106419
    Abstract: The present invention relates to processes and systems for the production of fermentation products such as alcohols. The present invention also provides methods for separating feed stream components for improved biomass processing and productivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: BUTAMAX ADVANCED BIOFUELS LLC
    Inventors: Stephane Francois Bazzana, Adam Bernfeld, Keith H. Burlew, Duncan Coffey, James Timothy Cronin, Benjamin Fuchs, John W. Hallam, Adam Jones, David J. Lowe, Brian Michael Roesch, Mathias E. Stolarski, James Gregory Wood, Joseph J. Zaher
  • Publication number: 20140073021
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the production of fermentation products such as alcohols including ethanol and butanol, and processes employing in situ product removal methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: BUTAMAX ADVANCED BIOFUELS LLC
    Inventors: STEPHANE FRANCOIS BAZZANA, ADAM BERNFELD, KEITH H. BURLEW, JAMES TIMOTHY CRONIN, MICHAEL CHARLES GRADY, BRIAN MICHAEL ROESCH, JOSEPH J. ZAHER, RAYMOND RICHARD ZOLANDZ