US Patent Issued to ChemStone on July 7 for "Hemicellulose-containing coatings" (Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,280, issued on July 7, was assigned to ChemStone Inc. (Greenville, S.C.).

"Hemicellulose-containing coatings" was invented by Michael Albert Bilodeau (Clermont, Fla.) and Samuel Mikail (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention describes methods of treating cellulosic materials with a composition comprising hemicellulose and/or lignin and sucrose fatty acid esters to modify barrier functions of such materials. The methods as disclosed use hemicellulose or lignin combined with saccharide fatty acid esters to form films on cellulosic materials, including that the disclosure provides products made by such methods. Th...