US Patent Issued to KUSUMOTO CHEMICALS on July 21 for "Rheology control agent and curable composition using the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,757, issued on July 21, was assigned to KUSUMOTO CHEMICALS LTD. (Tokyo).

"Rheology control agent and curable composition using the same" was invented by Yusuke Satta (Saitama, Japan), Kyohei Nakano (Saitama, Japan) and Kenji Fukui (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rheology control agent for a curable composition may include: a diamide compound (A) and/or a hydrogenated castor oil (A'), the diamide compound (A) being obtained by condensation reaction between a diamine component (A1) and a monocarboxylic acid component (A2); and a polyamide compound (B) obtained by polycondensation of an amine component (B1) and a carbox...