ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,394, issued on July 28, was assigned to CLARIANT INTERNATIONAL LTD (Muttenz, Switzerland).

"Corn wax oxidates and esterification products" was invented by Philipp Kratzer (Binswangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to bright corn wax oxidates, to a process for their production and to their use for agricultural or forestry purposes, as an additive in plastic processing, in care products, in printing inks and/or in paints, and to saponified or estered corn wax oxidates produced by saponifying or estering the described corn wax oxidates."

The patent was filed on March 25, 2022, under Application No. 18/280...