ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,048, issued on March 31, was assigned to MORESCO Corp. (Kobe, Japan).

"Dinaphthyl ether compound and lubricant composition containing same" was invented by Tatsuya Maeda (Hyogo, Japan), Mayumi Hayashi (Hyogo, Japan), Kohei Yamashita (Hyogo, Japan) and Masayuki Hata (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One aspect of the present invention relates to a dinaphthyl ether compound represented by formula (1):in the formula (1), R1 and R2 are the same or different and each represent a linear or branched hydrocarbon group having 6 to 32 carbon atoms; m and n are each a real number of 0 or more and satisfy 1.0less than equal tom+nless...