Patents by Inventor Marshall Medoff

Marshall Medoff 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: 10500560
    Abstract: Biomass (e.g., plant biomass, animal biomass, and municipal waste biomass) is processed to produce useful products, such as fuels. For example, systems can use feedstock materials, such as cellulosic and/or lignocellulosic materials and/or starchy materials, to produce ethanol and/or butanol, e.g., by fermentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Xyleco, Inc.
    Inventor: Marshall Medoff
  • Publication number: 20190362581
    Abstract: Methods of marking plastic-based products and marked plastic-based products are provided. Some methods include irradiating the product to alter the functionalization of the plastic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventor: Marshall Medoff
  • Publication number: 20190336933
    Abstract: Materials such as biomass (e.g., plant biomass, animal biomass, and municipal waste biomass) and hydrocarbon-containing materials are processed to produce useful products, such as fuels. For example, systems are described that can use feedstock materials, such as cellulosic and/or lignocellulosic materials and/or starchy materials, or oil sands, oil shale, tar sands, bitumen, and coal to produce altered materials such as fuels (e.g., ethanol and/or butanol). The processing includes exposing the materials to an ion beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventor: Marshall MEDOFF
  • Patent number: 10457656
    Abstract: Biomass feedstocks (e.g., plant biomass, animal biomass, and municipal waste biomass) are processed to produce useful products, such as fuels. For example, systems are described that can convert feedstock materials to a sugar solution, especially, xylose, which can then be chemically converted to furfural and furfural-derived products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: XYLECO, Inc.
    Inventors: Marshall Medoff, Thomas Craig Masterman, Christopher Cooper, Jihan Khan
  • Publication number: 20190322800
    Abstract: Biomass (e.g., plant biomass, animal biomass, and municipal waste biomass) is processed to produce useful intermediates and products, such as aliphatic hydroxy-carboxylic acid and hydroxyl-carboxylic acid derivatives. These aliphatic hydroxy-carboxylic acids are, in turn, polymerized. The polymerization is carried out using a thin film evaporator or a thin film polymerization/devolatilization device. Conversion of lactic acid to poly lactic acid is an especially useful product to this process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Applicant: Xyleco, Inc.
    Inventors: Marshall Medoff, Thomas Craig Masterman, Robert Paradis
  • Publication number: 20190316294
    Abstract: Biomass (e.g., plant biomass, animal biomass, and municipal waste biomass) or other materials are processed to produce useful intermediates and products, such as energy, fuels, foods or materials. For example, systems and methods are described that can be used to treat feedstock materials, such as cellulosic and/or lignocellulosic materials, in a vault in which the walls and optionally the ceiling include discrete units. Such vaults are re-configurable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Marshall MEDOFF, Thomas Craig MASTERMAN, Robert PARADIS
  • Publication number: 20190316108
    Abstract: The present invention relates to mixtures comprising a polypeptide or a plurality of polypeptides having biomass-degrading activity that is solubilized from an inclusion body, and retaining biomass-degrading activity, and methods for producing and using the same. The invention described herein provides methods for increasing the yield of recombinant protein with biomass-degrading activity that can be isolated from host cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Marshall Medoff, Natasha Kreder, James Lynch, Sean Landry, Aiichiro Yoshida, Desiree Pangilinan, Thomas Craig Masterman
  • Publication number: 20190316161
    Abstract: Methods are provided for reducing one or more dimensions of individual pieces of biomass; treating biomass, such as size-reduced biomass; changing a molecular structure of a biomass material; and, optionally, subjecting the biomass to a primary process to form a product. The methods include processing biomass materials using a screw extrusion process, and treating the biomass material with a screw extrusion process in size-reduction and treating steps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventor: Marshall MEDOFF
  • Publication number: 20190311161
    Abstract: Methods of marking paper products and marked paper products are provided. Some methods include irradiating the paper product to alter the functionalization of the paper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventor: Marshall MEDOFF
  • Publication number: 20190292726
    Abstract: Methods of manufacturing fuels are provided. These methods use often difficult to process lignocellulosic materials, for example crop residues and grasses. The methods can be readily practiced on a commercial scale in an economically viable manner, in some cases using as feedstocks materials that would otherwise be discarded as waste.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Marshall MEDOFF, Thomas Craig MASTERMAN
  • Publication number: 20190292508
    Abstract: A system for delivering air to an aqueous liquid for aerobic fermentation of the aqueous liquid includes a vessel having a length to diameter ratio of less than 2:1, an aeration system including at least one sparge tube having a pore size of less than 5 microns and a porosity of greater than 50 percent in fluid communication with an interior of the vessel, at least one blower configured to deliver air at a pressure of less than 15 psig to the at least one sparge tube, and a heat exchanger in fluid communication between the at least one blower and the at least one sparge tube that cools the air to below 100° F. (37.8° C.) prior to entering the at least one sparge tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Marshall Medoff, Thomas Craig Masterman, Robert Paradis, Aiichiro Yoshida, Karen Heinze
  • Patent number: 10412976
    Abstract: Described herein are products comprising a xylose (e.g., D-xylose or L-xylose and another sweetener such as glucose). Exemplary products include cosmetic products, oral care products, therapeutic products, nutraceutical products, diagnostic, beverages, animal food products, and human food products. Methods of making the xylose containing products from biomass is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: XYLECO, INC.
    Inventor: Marshall Medoff
  • Patent number: 10410453
    Abstract: Methods of marking plastic-based products and marked plastic-based products are provided. Some methods include irradiating the product to alter the functionalization of the plastic. In general, the present disclosure features methods of marking substrates, e.g., substrates including plastics, such as plastic-based products, such as polymer banknotes. Such plastics can be rigid or flexible, e.g., elastomeric. Such plastics can be thermoplastic or thermosets. In some cases, the products are marked by irradiating plastic-based materials, e.g., sheet materials, under conditions that alter characteristics of the irradiated plastic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Xyleco, Inc.
    Inventor: Marshall Medoff
  • Patent number: 10399059
    Abstract: Materials such as biomass (e.g., plant biomass, animal biomass, and municipal waste biomass) and hydrocarbon-containing materials are processed to produce useful products, such as fuels. For example, systems are described that can use feedstock materials, such as cellulosic and/or lignocellulosic materials and/or starchy materials, or oil sands, oil shale, tar sands, bitumen, and coal to produce altered materials such as fuels (e.g., ethanol and/or butanol). The processing includes exposing the materials to an ion beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Xyleco, Inc.
    Inventor: Marshall Medoff
  • Publication number: 20190257908
    Abstract: Systems and methods for monitoring and improving the treatment of biomass are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Marshall Medoff, Thomas Craig Masterman, Dennis Michaud, Gerard Palace
  • Patent number: 10380388
    Abstract: Methods of marking paper products and marked paper products are provided. Some methods include irradiating the paper product to alter the functionalization of the paper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Xyleco, Inc.
    Inventor: Marshall Medoff
  • Patent number: 10377999
    Abstract: The present invention relates to mixtures comprising a polypeptide or a plurality of polypeptides having biomass-degrading activity that is solubilized from an inclusion body, and retaining biomass-degrading activity, and methods for producing and using the same. The invention described herein provides methods for increasing the yield of recombinant protein with biomass-degrading activity that can be isolated from host cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: XYLECO, INC.
    Inventors: Marshall Medoff, Natasha Kreder, James J. Lynch, Sean Landry, Aiichiro Yoshida, Desiree Pangilinan, Thomas Craig Masterman
  • Publication number: 20190233751
    Abstract: Techniques for processing biomass are disclosed herein. A method of preparing cellulosic ethanol having 100% biogenic carbon content as determined by ASTM 6866-18, includes treating ground corn cobs with electron beam radiation and saccharifying the irradiated ground corn cob to produce sugars. The method also includes fermenting the sugars with a microorganism. In addition, an unblended cellulosic-biomass derived gasoline with a research octane number of greater than about 87, as determined by ASTM D2699 is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventor: Marshall MEDOFF
  • Publication number: 20190233863
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods for processing biomass materials that are disposed in one or more structures or carriers, e.g., a bag, a shell, a net, a membrane, a mesh or any combination of these. Containing the material in this manner allows it to be readily added or removed at any point and in any sequence during processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Marshall MEDOFF, Thomas Craig MASTERMAN, James LYNCH
  • Publication number: 20190232228
    Abstract: Biomass (e.g., plant biomass, animal biomass, and municipal waste biomass) is processed to produce useful intermediates and products, such as energy, fuels, foods or materials. For example, equipment, systems and methods are described that can be used to treat feedstock materials, such as cellulosic and/or lignocellulosic materials, in a vault in which hazardous gases are removed, destroyed and/or converted. The treatments are efficient and can reduce the recalcitrance of the lignocellulosic material so that it is easier to produce an intermediate or product, e.g., sugars, alcohols, sugar alcohols and energy, from the lignocellulosic material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Marshall MEDOFF, Thomas Craig MASTERMAN, Robert PARADIS