Patents by Inventor Robin R. Woodbury

Robin R. Woodbury 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).

  • Separation of sugars from mixtures
    Patent number: 4133696
    Abstract: A process for the treatment of a mixture comprising one or more sugars and oxyanions to separate a sugar or a sugar mixture therefrom wherein the ion-containing mixture is treated with an ion-exchange resin. The process may comprise treatment of the ion-containing mixture with a cationic exchange resin having thereon monovalent counterions or a mixture of divalent counterions and hydrogen ions or with first a cationic exchange resin having thereon hydrogen ions and then second with an anionic exchange resin having thereon monovalent or divalent counterions. The process is very useful in the production of fructose-containing syrups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 9, 1979
    Assignee: Imperial Chemical Industries Limited
    Inventors: Sidney A. Barker, Peter J. Somers, Robin R. Woodbury