US Patent Issued to CLARIANT INTERNATIONAL on April 21 for "Methyl ester ethoxylates with a mixture of C18 monounsaturated and C18 unsaturated/polyunsaturated alkyl groups" (German, British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,774, issued on April 21, was assigned to CLARIANT INTERNATIONAL LTD (Muttenz, Switzerland).

"Methyl ester ethoxylates with a mixture of C18 monounsaturated and C18 unsaturated/polyunsaturated alkyl groups" was invented by Jan Diederichs (Gendorf, Germany), Xiaoqiang Guo (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Peter Josef Hallier (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Felix Hovelmann (Burgkirchen, Germany), Kevin James Mutch (The Woodlands, Texas), Carsten Schaefer (Frankfurt, Germany), Stephen Norman Batchelor (Merseyside, Great Britain) and Julie Bennett (Merseyside, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Specific mixtures of methyl ester ethox...