{"id":35232,"date":"2016-06-15T07:41:08","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T05:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rss.nova-institut.net\/public.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.biofuelsdigest.com%2Fbdigest%2F2016%2F06%2F05%2Fkultevat-earns-first-patent-for-dandelion-to-rubber-process%2F"},"modified":"2016-06-09T14:46:51","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T12:46:51","slug":"kultevat-receives-first-process-patent-for-dandelion-rubber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/kultevat-receives-first-process-patent-for-dandelion-rubber\/","title":{"rendered":"Kultevat receives first process patent for dandelion rubber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CREVE COEUR, Mo.\u2014Kultevat Inc., a company devoted to the commercial development of high-quality rubber and co-products from the Russian dandelion (Taraxacum kok-saghyz, or TKS), has received its first process patent.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>U.S. Patent No. 9,346,924 B2, issued May 24, covers dandelion, composition and products, according to the document.<\/p>\n<p>The patent covers a process involving the simultaneous extraction of rubber and inulin \u2014 a naturally occurring carbohydrate with various industrial, medical and food uses \u2014 from the dandelion root.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo alternative rubber crop has thus far had an integrated system for maximizing the value of all crop co-products,\u201d said the background section of the patent document.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe process employs a dandelion species that is selected from the group consisting of Taraxacum officiale, Taraxacum kok-saghyz, a rubber-bearing species of the genus Taraxacum, and a combination of two or more thereof,\u201d the patent abstract said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFarmers, investors and end-users like tire companies are looking to minimize risk and increase certainty as we move toward TKS commercialization,\u201d said Kultevat President and CEO Daniel Swiger in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>According to its website, Creve Coeur-based Kultevat said its crop system serves agricultural markets in a number of ways, primarily through the production of rubber and mixed sugar feedstocks for biofuels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CREVE COEUR, Mo.\u2014Kultevat Inc., a company devoted to the commercial development of high-quality rubber and co-products from the Russian dandelion (Taraxacum kok-saghyz, or TKS), has received its first process patent. U.S. Patent No. 9,346,924 B2, issued May 24, covers dandelion, composition and products, according to the document. The patent covers a process involving the simultaneous [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[5838,11635],"supplier":[6786],"class_list":["post-35232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-bioeconomy","tag-innovation","supplier-kultevat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35232"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=35232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}