Patents by Inventor Megan Matthes

Megan Matthes 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).

  • Process for purifying lignocellulosic feedstocks
    Patent number: 9862893
    Abstract: The present invention includes methods for removing mineral acids, mineral salts and contaminants, such as metal impurities, ash, terpenoids, stilbenes, flavonoids, proteins, and other inorganic products, from a lignocellulosic feedstock stream containing organic acids, carbohydrates, starches, polysaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides, sugars, sugar alcohols, phenols, cresols, and other oxygenated hydrocarbons, in a manner that maintains a portion of the organic acids and other oxygenated hydrocarbons in the product stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Virent, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Gray, Megan Matthes, Thomas Nelson, Andrew Held
  • PROCESS FOR PURIFYING LIGNOCELLULOSIC FEEDSTOCKS
    Publication number: 20120289692
    Abstract: The present invention includes methods for removing contaminants, such as mineral salts, mineral acids, terpenoids, stilbenes, flavonoids, proteinaceous materials, metal impurities, ash and other organic products, from a lignocellulosic feedstock stream containing oxygenated hydrocarbons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Inventors: Matthew Gray, Megan Matthes, Thomas Nelson, Andrew Held