GreenShift to Receive Another Corn Oil Extraction Patent

We Have Led The Way!

GreenShift Corporation (OTCQB: GERS) today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a notice of allowance for patent application number 11/241,231, titled "Method of Processing Ethanol Byproducts and Related Subsystems" (the "231 Patent Application").

The new patent is broadly directed to corn oil extraction processes that include evaporating water from thin stillage to form a thin stillage concentrate; mechanically processing the thin stillage concentrate to separate oil from the thin stillage concentrate; and recovering the separated oil.

Increased Strength
The new notice of allowance is the third allowance issued by the USPTO on this particular application. To further strengthen its legal position, GreenShift requested the USPTO in each case to withdraw the earlier allowances and review all of the materials submitted by all of the defendants in GreenShift's current patent infringement litigation, including ICM, Flottwegg, and Westfalia in support of their invalidity arguments. The USPTO issued the new notice of allowance for the 231 Patent Application in spite of everything raised by each and every defendant, including ICM.

GreenShift believes that the allowance of the new patent by the USPTO is further substantial confirmation of the validity of GreenShift's patents, and significantly increases the strength of GreenShift's legal position in asserting its claims of infringement of its corn oil extraction patents.

Pioneering Patents

GreenShift's issued and allowed patents cover recovery of corn oil from the stillage co-product of dry mill ethanol production. This process has, by far, become the most cost-effective and most profitable advancement made available to dry mill producers in the history of the ethanol industry.

"We have led the way," said David Winsness, GreenShift's Chief Technology Officer. "We invented, developed and commercialized this technology. We educated the industry and created the market for back-end corn oil extraction. Our patents are pioneering patents that dominate the field, dramatically altering the landscape of the ethanol industry by enabling the industry to capture more than $2 billion per year in additional income without consuming any additional corn."

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11/241231 Patent Application HERE

New Notice of Allowability Here

Patent Mail Room Dates and History of this Patent. Doubting Thomas?  You can see here the Notice of Allowance issued on 2-17-2010, and 8-11-2010 and now 4-21-2011 as mentioned in the PR above.  Also as mentioned above - each of the first two Notice of Allowances were followed by a request for withdrawal and massive submissions of prior art. 
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