ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,482, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Workem S.R.L. Unipersonale (Pisa, Italy).
"Use of epoxidized vegetable oils as tanning agents" was invented by Giacomo Monteverde (Fucecchio, Italy), Giuseppe Monteverde (Pisa, Italy), Massimiliano Franceschi (Leghorn, Italy), Silvia Pierozzi (Collesalvetti, Italy) and Antonio Cecchi (Pisa, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the tanning industry and in particular to the use of an epoxidized vegetable oil as a tanning agent in at least one step of the leather processing process of the tanning industry."
The patent was filed on Oct. 6, 2022, under Application...