ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,681, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NOF Corp. (Tokyo).

"Solubilizing agent and solubilizing solution" was invented by Koh Kobayashi (Kawasaki, Japan), Masaru Matsuda (Kawasaki, Japan) and Tomozumi Noda (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a solubilizing agent for hardly water-soluble substances, which contains a compound represented by the formula (1):wherein the symbols in the above formula are as defined in the specification."

The patent was filed on April 13, 2021, under Application No. 17/996,470.

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