USPTO awards patent to UMD team for process to make gasoline through fermentation; electrofuels

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By mmillikinDec 22, 2015, 2:20 pm198 pts
The US Patent and Trademark Office issued patent Nº 9,217,161 for a process using naturally occurring microorganisms to ferment biomass or gases directly to hydrocarbons such as hexane and octane. The fuels separate and rise to the surface of the fermentation broth, and are exactly the same as current…

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