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BIOENERGY. Latest granted patents 2014-2016. Methods of control and diagnostics
Summary
Due to its low cost and wide availability biomass is increasingly being discussed as an ideal feedstock in renewable fuel research. However, feedstocks which exhibit deficiencies in many of the desirable biomass properties (size, quality, purity) can, for instance, adversely affect the main production chain, increase the production costs and lower the quality and the yield of the product. Therefore, effective methods of control and diagnostics are indispensable for any form of biomass processing, such as gasification or ethanol, bio-diesel and biogas production. Methods of Control and Diagnostics are particularly important for determining the quality of the feedstock, in primary processing and finishing treatment of the product (purification, distillation, dehydration…). The patents presented in the current bulletin try to address some of the aforementioned problems.
The present bulletin includes 185 patents prepared by applicants from 26 countries and registered in 21 patent offices. The patent documents mention 245 applicants and 269 IPC subgroups.
Key Highlights
Statistical information presented in the bulletin includes distribution of patent documents by years, by patent offices and by applicant countries, applicant-related data (residents and non-residents), and data on the most frequently mentioned International Patent Classification divisions (sections, classes, subclasses, groups, and subgroups). The largest number of patents during the period of time under revision was granted to the patent office of the United States.
Based on the analysis of each of the patents, internal characteristics of unified indicators (technical problems, types of inventive solutions, belonging to one or other technological segment) were found, which allowed specific features for each of the indicators for the entire array of documents to be defined, for instance, to define the leading problems or technical solution types that were disclosed by the inventors the most. Document lists are provided for the ten most popular groups of patent documents with identical unified indicators, including their ID numbers and applicant names.
Data is provided for each of the top 10 applicants, leading in terms of the number of published patent documents among the ones examined in the bulletin, illustrating their share in the established intellectual property market, distribution of patents by problems, IPC sections, patent offices and technology indicators. Representatives of the United States and China prevail among the patenting leaders in the examined period of time, including: Seab Energy Holdings Ltd. (GB), Sunshine Kaidi New Energy Group Co. Ltd (CN), Bioendev AB (SE), Biogasol (DK), Endress+Hauser Flowtec Ag (CH), Ineos Bio SA (CH), Mantex AB (SE), Mks Instruments, Inc (US), Xyleco Inc. (US), Carbonexcel Pte Ltd (SG).
The prominent documents pages contain the top 10 patents with the highest bibliographical rating, the most extensive coverage of IPC sections, and the shortest patent pending time.
A list of all of the documents reviewed, arranged by the top 10 groups of patent documents with identical unified indicators and by patent offices with the indication of the ID numbers of the granted patents are provided in the conclusive part of the bulletin.
Who needs this bulletin?
The proposed patent statistics bulletin allows the existing trends in the intellectual property market of the specified industrial sector to be timely traced, as well as the possibility of acquiring a carefully selected list of patent documents fully corresponding to the specified subject. The bulletin can be useful for inventors, engineers, scientific workers, and business representatives, who are focused on the development of bioenergy production methods.
