Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
26 patents granted to the 3 names below, as the owner printed on each patent when it was granted. A later sale, a lapse or an expiry is not read, so this is what was granted to Green Plains Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
26
26 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
6
Against 2 in 2024 and 4 in 2023
Applications published
32
6 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
3
a subsidiary, its own name
By yearGrantedApplications published
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
Biotechnology11
Food chemistry9
Chemical engineering2
Basic materials chemistry1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name3 counted
Fluid Quip Technologies, LLC a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
30 publishedFluid Quip Technologies, LLC a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
1 publishedGreen Plains Inc. its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
1 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Dec 2, 2025 | 12,486,522 | Systems and methods for producing a sugar stream | Biotechnology | Fluid Quip Technologies, LLC |
| Jul 29, 2025 | 12,371,717 | System and process for adding pre-fermentation separated non-fermentables to a post-fermentation stream | Biotechnology | Fluid Quip Technologies, LLC |
| May 27, 2025 | 12,312,624 | System and method for producing a carbohydrate stream from a cellulosic feedstock | Biotechnology | Fluid Quip Technologies, LLC |
| Apr 1, 2025 | 12,264,294 | Methods for producing a high protein corn meal from a whole stillage byproduct and system therefore | Food chemistry | Fluid Quip Technologies, LLC |
| Mar 25, 2025 | 12,258,602 | System and method for producing a sugar stream with front end oil separation | Food chemistry | Fluid Quip Technologies, LLC |
| Feb 4, 2025 | 12,213,497 | Method and system for producing a protein and fiber feed product from a whole stillage byproduct produced in a corn dry milling process | Food chemistry | Fluid Quip Technologies, LLC |
| Jul 30, 2024 | 12,048,935 | Method and system for reducing the unfermentable solids content in a protein portion at the back end of a corn dry milling process | Food chemistry | Fluid Quip Technologies, LLC |
| Jul 9, 2024 | 12,031,105 | Methods for producing a high protein corn meal from a whole stillage byproduct and system therefore | Food chemistry | Fluid Quip Technologies, LLC |
| Oct 17, 2023 | 11,788,038 | Method and system for removing insoluble solids mid-evaporation from a corn dry milling process | Chemical engineering | Fluid Quip Technologies, LLC |
| Sep 5, 2023 | 11,746,365 | System and method for producing a carbohydrate stream from a cellulosic feedstock | Biotechnology | Fluid Quip Technologies, LLC |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Oct 23, 2025 | 2025/0327102 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECOVERING OIL FROM A GRAIN DRY MILLING SYSTEM | Biotechnology | Fluid Quip Technologies, LLC |
| Aug 28, 2025 | 2025/0270606 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A CARBOHYDRATE STREAM FROM A CELLULOSIC FEEDSTOCK | Biotechnology | Fluid Quip Technologies, LLC |
| Jun 5, 2025 | 2025/0179546 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A SUGAR STREAM WITH FRONT END OIL SEPARATION | Food chemistry | Fluid Quip Technologies, LLC |
| May 15, 2025 | 2025/0151759 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING A PROTEIN AND FIBER FEED PRODUCT FROM A WHOLE STILLAGE BYPRODUCT PRODUCED IN A CORN DRY MILLING PROCESS | Food chemistry | Fluid Quip Technologies, LLC |
| Mar 13, 2025 | 2025/0084124 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INCREASING THE YIELD AND/OR PURITY OF PROTEIN AND OIL FROM A GRAIN PROTEIN AND GRAIN OIL RECOVERY SYSTEM | Chemical engineering | Fluid Quip Technologies, LLC |
| Jan 30, 2025 | 2025/0035381 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HEATING PROCESS LIQUID USED IN A SLURRY STREAM IN AN ALCOHOL PRODUCTION PROCESS | Chemical engineering | Fluid Quip Technologies, LLC |
| Nov 14, 2024 | 2024/0376397 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INCREASING OIL YIELD FROM A WHOLE STILLAGE BYPRODUCT PRODUCED IN A CORN DRYMILLING PROCESS | Basic materials chemistry | Fluid Quip Technologies, LLC |
| Oct 24, 2024 | 2024/0352377 | METHODS FOR PRODUCING A HIGH PROTEIN CORN MEAL FROM A WHOLE STILLAGE BYPRODUCT AND SYSTEM THEREFORE | Food chemistry | Fluid Quip Technologies, LLC · patent 12,264,294 granted from it |
| Aug 29, 2024 | 2024/0284939 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING A HIGH PROTEIN MEAL FROM A WHOLE STILLAGE BYPRODUCT AND SYSTEM THEREFOR | Food chemistry | Fluid Quip Technologies, LLC |
| Mar 7, 2024 | 2024/0076753 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A SUGAR STREAM | Biotechnology | Fluid Quip Technologies, LLC |
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Biotechnology 4 · Food chemistry 4 · Chemical engineering 2 · Basic materials chemistry 1.
A patent is counted where the owner printed on it when it was granted carries the company’s own name, a former name, the name of a subsidiary its annual report lists, or its own name with a patent-holding phrase (Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property and the like), once the legal form, case and punctuation are set aside, and prints a country that name counts in. PatentsView’s data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: PatentsView's granted patents and pre-grant publications, disambiguated, from the USPTO's Open Data Portal, through Dec 31, 2025, read Oct 27, 2026.