US Patent Issued to NIPPON SHOKUBAI on March 17 for "Water absorbing agent composition and method for producing same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,388, issued on March 17, was assigned to NIPPON SHOKUBAI Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Water absorbing agent composition and method for producing same" was invented by Yoshiro Mitsukami (Himeji, Japan), Tatsuya Yamaguchi (Himeji, Japan), Takaaki Wada (Suita, Japan) and Setsu Inoue (Himeji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a water-absorbing agent composition of high quality (and stable quality) that can be produced without a decrease in productivity and is not colored even in a production process (or under production conditions) under high temperature conditions (under the condition of heating at 100deg C. or higher), ev...