US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on May 12 for "Pourable wetting agents and methods associated therewith" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,272, issued on May 12, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Pourable wetting agents and methods associated therewith" was invented by Qusai A. Darugar (Cypress, Texas), Ashok Santra (The Woodlands, Texas) and Nicolas Osorio (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pourable wetting agent compositions include a first condensation reaction product having a structure represented by the formula R"-NH-CH2-(CH2NR"CH2)a-CH2-C3H4N2-R'; wherein a is 0 or a positive integer; R' is a C6-C30 hydrocarbyl group; and R" is-CO-R' or -CO-A-COOH, provided that at least one occurrence of R" is-CO-A-COOH; wherein A is a dival...