US Patent Issued to KAO on Aug. 11 for "Compound, precursor compound thereof, surfactant composition, and detergent composition" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,838, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to KAO Corp. (Tokyo).

"Compound, precursor compound thereof, surfactant composition, and detergent composition" was invented by Shogo Kamenoue (Wakayama, Japan), Akiyoshi Kimura (Wakayama, Japan) and Ojiro Tamagawa (Wakayama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a compound of chemical formula (1), a precursor compound for producing the compound, a surfactant composition and a detergent composition including the compound,wherein R1 and R2 are each an aliphatic hydrocarbon group, X is a single bond or a hydrocarbon group having 1 or more and 5 or less carbon atoms, a total num...