ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,651, issued on July 7, was assigned to KAO Corp. (Tokyo).
"Evaporation inhibitor for plant treatment agents" was invented by Hiroshi Tomita (Wakayama, Japan), Takahito Ui (Wakayama, Japan) and Shota Yamamoto (Wakayama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is an evaporation inhibitor for plant treatment agents composed of at least one compound selected from (A1) a compound obtained by adding a predetermined amount of at least one alkylene oxide (hereinafter referred to as AO) selected from ethylene oxide (hereinafter referred to as EO) and propylene oxide (hereinafter referred to as PO) to a predetermined alcohol,...