ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,120, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Dow Global Technologies LLC (Midland, Mich.).

"Composition with mixed C 13 -C 14 alcohols and surfactants" 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), Jin Yang (Freeport, Texas), Haifeng Shi (Lake Jackson, Texas), Bruce D. Hook (Lake Jackson, 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 a mixture of an alcohol (1) and an alcoh...