GreenShift Awarded Second Patent on Corn Oil Extraction

NEW YORK - (Business Wire) GreenShift Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: GERS) announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued notice that pending patent number 11/688,435 will be issued as U.S. Patent No. 7,608,729, titled "Method of Freeing the Bound Oil Present in Whole Stillage and Thin Stillage” (the ’729 Patent) on October 27, 2009 to GS CleanTech Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of GreenShift.

GreenShift previously announced the October 13, 2009 award by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to GS CleanTech of U.S. Patent No. 7,601,858, titled "Method of Processing Ethanol Byproducts and Related Subsystems” (the ’858 Patent).

“The ‘858 Patent covers the core of our extraction platform,” said David Winsness, GreenShift’s chief technology officer and co-inventor of GreenShift’s extraction technologies. “The ‘729 Patent builds off of the ‘858 Patent to enhance yield and optimize energy utilization. The issuance of both patents further validate the significant resources and years of hard work that we have invested in the development of our extraction platform. We are energized by these events and we look forward to using our technological capabilities to address the environmental and financial needs of our clients.”

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