The present review provides information on the 10 most productive patent applicants who published applications in the field of cellulosic ethanol production in 2016. The review aggregates data from around 261 patent applications. The patent applications examined were filed in 18 patent offices by 115 applicants from 23 countries. Global ethanol production is predominantly concentrated in such regions as the USA, Brazil, the European...

In total, we have collected 261 patent applications that were published in 2016 in the field of cellulosic ethanol production technologies. Among these documents the largest number were filed in the United States Patent and Trademark Office – 35%. A considerable number of patent applications were also filed in the World Intellectual Property Organisation (12%); the National Institute of Industrial Property of Brazil (10%); the European...

In recent years cellulosic ethanol production rates have tended to demonstrate moderate growth. This technology makes it possible to avoid using food crops for the production of energy carrier that can be used as an additive for conventional types of fuel. During the last decade ethanol production technologies have become widely used in the USA, Brazil and the European Union, while total volumes of ethanol produced in 2015 exceeded 25...

Production of cellulosic ethanol is steadily increasing, but still can't compete with conventional bioethanol technologies. However, inventors' patenting activity in this sector remains high. The present review includes analysis of patent applications on cellulosic ethanol production that were published in 2015 in the major patent offices of the world. For the current year we have found 341 patent applications related to one or other...