MUMBAI, India, March 14 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617001739 A) filed by Toho Chemical Industry Co. Ltd., Tokyo, on Jan. 7, for 'lignin derivative and additive for hydraulic composition containing same.'

Inventor(s) include Hataguchi, Kenta; Kobayashi, Satoshi; and Suga, Akira.

The application for the patent was published on March 13, under issue no. 11/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "To provide a lignin derivative that can be produced by industrially reasonable reaction conditions and can exhibit stable high fluidity by enhancing material uniformity in the initial stage of kneading of a hydraulic composition, and to provide an additive for a hydraul...