US Patent Issued to AUBURN UNIVERSITY on Oct. 21 for "Bio-lubricant compositions and methods thereof" (Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,580, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to AUBURN UNIVERSITY (Auburn, Ala.).

"Bio-lubricant compositions and methods thereof" was invented by Sushil Adhikari (Auburn, Ala.) and Hossein Jahromi (Auburn, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method of producing a lubricant composition comprising the steps of hydrolyzing a starting material to provide a hydrolyzed product mixture, reacting the hydrolyzed product mixture under conditions capable of producing a condensation product mixture, contacting the condensation product mixture with a cyclic compound to provide a coupled product mixture, and hydrogenatin...