ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,207, issued on March 31, was assigned to Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Duesseldorf, Germany).

"Epoxy composition comprising a bio-based epoxy compound" was invented by Adrian Brandt (Essen, Germany), Alissa Besler (Neuss, Germany), Horst Beck (Neuss, Germany), Sascha Andronescu (Duisburg, Germany), Johannes Gerardus de Vries (Rostock, Germany), Sarah Kirchhecker (Rostock, Germany), Bernhard M. Stadler (Rostock, Germany) and Sergey Tin (Rostock, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an epoxy composition comprising a) an epoxy resin; b) a curing agent; and c) a bio-based epoxy compound having a structure I:Th...