US Patent Issued to ADEKA on Jan. 20 for "Method of producing bio-derived branched alkyl glyceryl ether, and bio-derived branched alkyl glyceryl ether produced by said method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,755, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to ADEKA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method of producing bio-derived branched alkyl glyceryl ether, and bio-derived branched alkyl glyceryl ether produced by said method" was invented by Takahiro Inoue (Tokyo), Masahiro Takata (Tokyo) and Toshio Hamasaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method of producing a bio-derived branched alkyl glyceryl ether, including: a step of providing a bio-derived branched primary alcohol having a branched alkyl group having 6 to 12 carbon atoms, the step including dimerizing one kind or two or more kinds selected from the group consisting...