US Patent Issued to Conopco on Sept. 22 for "Surfactant and detergent composition" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,132, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Conopco Inc. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.).

"Surfactant and detergent composition" was invented by Stephen Norman Batchelor (Chester, Great Britain), David Stephen Grainger (Chester, Great Britain) and David Christopher Thorley (Shavington, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a secondary alkane sulfonate surfactant, wherein at least 70 wt. % of the secondary alkane sulfonate is a secondary alkane sulfonate (SAS) surfactant having linear alkyl chains of from 15 to 18 carbon atoms; wherein less than 30% of the secondary alkane sulfonate (SAS) surfactant has linear a...