Patents by Inventor Sandra Brovold

Sandra Brovold 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).

  • Method of removing pericarp from grain in recoverable form
    Publication number: 20050025868
    Abstract: A method for debranning grain, such as corn, involves treating the grain with hot water, followed by (1) treating the grain with an aqueous solution of a strong base and (2) detaching pericarp from the grain. Ethanol may be produced by hydrolyzing debranned grain produced by this method to sugars, and fermenting the sugars to ethanol. Alternatively, chemically or enzymatically modifying grain involves treating the grain with water to create a permeability barrier in the endosperm of the grain, and chemically or enzymatically modifying the portion of the grain outside the permeability barrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2004
    Publication date: February 3, 2005
    Inventors: Daniel Karl, Sandra Brovold