US Patent Issued to ADVANSIX RESINS & CHEMICALS on July 8 for "Branched amino acid surfactants" (Romanian, American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,547, issued on July 8, was assigned to ADVANSIX RESINS & CHEMICALS LLC (Parsippany, N.J.).

"Branched amino acid surfactants" was invented by Edward Asirvatham (Chatham, N.J.), Andrei Honciuc (Iasi, Romania) and Voichita Mihali (Basel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides derivatives of amino acids that have branched alkyl structures and surface-active properties. The amino acid can be naturally-occurring or synthetic, or they may be obtained via a ring-opening reaction of a lactam, such as caprolactam. The amino acid may be functionalized to form a compound that is surface-active and have advantag...