US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on Sept. 8 for "N-acyl amino acid surfactants and derivatives thereof" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,085, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"N-acyl amino acid surfactants and derivatives thereof" was invented by Victor Manuel Arredondo (West Chester, Ohio), Karunakaran Narasimhan (Mason, Ohio) and Howard David Hutton III (Oregonia, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Surfactant compositions and derivatives with low amounts of impurities are disclosed along with a method of making the same. A surfactant composition includes greater than 80% by weight of N-acyl amino acid surfactant of formula (I) and is substantially free of solvents and/or NaCl. A process for preparing an N-acyl amino acid sur...