US Patent Issued to AdvanSix Resins & Chemicals on Nov. 4 for "Siloxane derivatives of amino acids having surface-active properties" (Romanian, American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,963, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to AdvanSix Resins & Chemicals LLC (Parsippany, N.J.).

"Siloxane derivatives of amino acids having surface-active properties" 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 siloxane derivatives of amino acids that have 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 with a siloxane group to form a compound th...