US Patent Issued to Dow Global Technologies on June 30 for "Aryl-PAG monoesters as lubricating oil base stocks" (Chinese, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,754, issued on June 30, was assigned to Dow Global Technologies LLC (Midland, Mich.).

"Aryl-PAG monoesters as lubricating oil base stocks" was invented by Yaokun Han (Shanghai), Martin R. Greaves (Baar, Switzerland), Cheng Shen (Shanghai), Tao Wang (Shanghai), Yong Zhao (Shanghai), Jieying Chen (Shanghai) and Kang Chen (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses aryl-polyalkylene glycol monoester compound compositions that are suitable for use as a base oil, particularly a base oil for use as an automotive lubricant. The compositions can generally be characterized by having low kinematic viscosity at 100d...