US Patent Issued to Hercules on May 12 for "Synthetic thickeners incorporating non-reactive diluents" (Delaware, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,164, issued on May 12, was assigned to Hercules LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Synthetic thickeners incorporating non-reactive diluents" was invented by Kelly Anne Brush (Newark, Del.), Venkataram Krishnan (Avondale, Pa.), Zeena Kottukapally Cherian (Exton, Pa.) and Sowmitri Tarimala (Newark, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The presently disclosed and/or claimed inventive concept(s) relates to a method for preparing a reaction product, comprising (1) molten mixing a first active hydrogen containing component and a first alkali hydroxide to form a first mixture; (2) adding water into the first mixture to dissolve the first molten alkali ...