ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,231, issued on July 14, was assigned to KEMIRA OYJ (Helsinki).

"Softener concentrate, softener emulsion, method for producing softener emulsion and its use" was invented by Zheng Dang (Atlanta), Junhua Chen (Atlanta), Clayton Campbell (Atlanta), Yong Zou (Atlanta) and Yuping Luo (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a softener concentrate and a softener emulsion comprising imidazoline-based surfactant, lanolin-based softener, phospholipids and surfactant blend. The present invention further provides a process for producing a softener emulsion and controlling the viscosity of a softener emulsion. The p...