US Patent Issued on Sept. 15 for "Polysaccharide derivatives for detergent compositions" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,511, issued on Sept. 15.

"Polysaccharide derivatives for detergent compositions" was invented by Arjen Hoekstra (Oegstgeest, Netherlands), Sander Bas Kluit (Leiden, Netherlands), Zhengzheng Huang (Hockessin, Del.), Helen S. M. Lu (Wallingford, Pa.), Daqing Zhang (Wilmington, Del.) and Geert Van Der Kraan (Leiden, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are detergent compositions that comprise at least one (i) glucan derivative and/or (ii) oxidized polysaccharide derivative. A glucan derivative of (i) can be substituted with at least one organic group that comprises a carboxylic acid group or a sulfonate group, an...