GreenShift Awarded Patent for Corn Oil Extraction

NEW YORK - (Business Wire) GreenShift Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: GERS) announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued U.S. Patent No. 7,601,858, titled "Method of Processing Ethanol Byproducts and Related Subsystems” (the ’858 Patent) for the extraction of corn oil to GS CleanTech Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of GreenShift.

“The issuance of the ‘858 Patent is a significant milestone for GreenShift and its stakeholders,” said Kevin Kreisler, GreenShift’s chairman and chief executive officer. “GreenShift has a substantial investment in the development of these important and timely new technologies. We look forward with great anticipation to working with the ethanol industry to press the evolution of corn ethanol forward into enhanced sustainability.”

The ‘858 Patent covers processes for recovering corn oil by evaporating, concentrating and mechanically processing thin stillage, a precursor to the distillers grain co-product of corn ethanol production (“DDGS”). Historically, ethanol production facilities have sold DDGS for animal feed, with all of the oil trapped inside. An estimated 3.4 million tons of corn oil passed unrecovered through the U.S. ethanol industry during 2008 alone.

GreenShift’s portfolio of patented and patent-pending extraction technologies can cost-effectively extract most of this corn oil, thereby increasing biofuel yields per bushel of corn by 7% while reducing the energy consumption and greenhouse gas (“GHG”) intensity of corn ethanol production by an estimated 21% and 29%, respectively.

Entire Article Here:
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/greenshift-awarded-patent-for-corn-oil-extraction,998896.shtml
And here:
http://www.greenshift.com/news.php?id=248

Here is a related article from May with the initial Patents allowed:
http://www.greenshift.com/news.php?id=245

Also note the Greenshift web site has been updated.
http://www.greenshift.com/

SkunK