ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,097, issued on March 24, was assigned to Dow Global Technologies LLC (Midland, Mich.).
"Foam control agents for fermentation" was invented by Rafael F. De Santi Ungarato (Jundiai, Brazil) and Wanglin Yu (Pearland, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fermentation method includes steps of forming a broth having yeast, water and sugar; and contacting a foam control agent with the broth, a foam formed on the broth or both, wherein the foam control agent has structure (I) wherein R is a linear or branched alkyl group containing from 4 to 18 carbon atoms, m is from 1 to 10, n is from 9 to 15, o is from 15 to 25, and o/n is from 1.00 to...