ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,827, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Dow Global Technologies LLC (Midland, Mich.).

"Composition with mixed C 8 -C 18 alcohols and surfactants thereof" was invented by Wanglin Yu (Lake Jackson, Texas), Michael A. Brammer (Freeport, Texas), Sally Demaio-Turner (Lake Jackson, Texas), Sung-Yu Ku (Lake Jackson, Texas), Bruce D. Hook (Lake Jackson, Texas), Haifeng Shi (Lake Jackson, Texas), Jin Yang (Freeport, Texas), Yujun Liu (Lake Jackson, Texas) and Jeff Johnson (Freeport, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a composition. In an embodiment, the composition includes 2-heptylundecanol; a member selecte...