US Patent Issued to Milliken & Co. on June 30 for "Branched wetting agents for enhanced treatment of drought field conditions" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,742, issued on June 30, was assigned to Milliken & Co. (Spartanburg, S.C.).

"Branched wetting agents for enhanced treatment of drought field conditions" was invented by Nicholas G. Moon (Greer, S.C.), Jimmy M. Stokes (Duncan, S.C.) and Richard Lawson (Greer, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to multi-branched block copolymers suitable for use as wetting agents. The multi-branched block copolymers are comprised of an oxygen-containing polyfunctional base compound having at least 3 EO/PO block copolymer branches attached thereto. The improvement lies in: (a) the percent hydrophobic component, as defined as the ...