ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,367, issued on July 28, was assigned to Arkema France (Puteaux, France).

"Rheology additives based on di- or tri-amides and mixtures thereof" was invented by Michael Y. Bernard (Enghien-les-Bains, France), Dmitri Colesnic (Paris), Laurent Lepinay (Meru, France), Vincent Leroy (Fitz James, France) and Francois Vettier (Chatou, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a fatty amide which is a di- or triamide based on a polyether diamine or triamine which can be used as organogelator and in particular as rheology additive. The invention also relates to a formulation composition using said fatty amide as rheology ad...