ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,248, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to KAO Corp. (Tokyo).
"Method for producing Guerbet alcohol" was invented by Takenori Totoki (Wakayama, Japan) and Satoru Onozawa (Wakayama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a Guerbet alcohol, including reacting a raw material alcohol having 8 or more and 22 or less carbon atoms, in the presence of a catalyst (A) containing a first component and a second component below, having a molar ratio of the second component with respect to the first component (second component/first component) of 0.0001 or more and 0.005 or less: first component: copper, and second component: one k...