US Patent Issued to Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas on Feb. 10 for "Cellulose nanocrystal-based emulsions and uses thereof" (Arkansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,730, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Ark.).

"Cellulose nanocrystal-based emulsions and uses thereof" was invented by Jin-Woo Kim (Fayetteville, Ark.), Gurshagan Kandhola (Fayetteville, Ark.) and Joseph Batta-Mpouma (Fayetteville, Ark.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates generally to a method of treating a crop with an agricultural product, where the method includes the steps of incorporating a cellulose nanocrystal-based emulsion into an agrochemical to produce the agricultural product and applying said agricultural product to said crop. The cellulose ...