US Patent Issued to SARAYA on July 14 for "Sophorolipid-containing composition having excellent handleability" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,859, issued on July 14, was assigned to SARAYA Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Sophorolipid-containing composition having excellent handleability" was invented by Takuya Matsusako (Kashiwara, Japan), Michiaki Araki (Kashiwara, Japan) and Yoshihiko Hirata (Kashiwara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a sophorolipid (SL)-containing composition with excellent handleability and a method for producing the sophorolipid-containing composition. The SL-containing composition according to the present invention includes the following characteristics: (A) the content of lactonic SL being 45 to 81 mass % of the total a...