ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,539, issued on July 8, was assigned to Battelle Memorial Institute (Columbus, Ohio).
"Bio-based surfactants" was invented by Daniel B. Garbark (Columbus, Ohio), Jeffrey T. Cafmeyer (Columbus, Ohio), Manoj Kumar Valluri (Columbus, Ohio), Phillip Denen (Columbus, Ohio) and Albert J. Darling (Columbus, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Bio-based surfactants have great opportunity for use in a variety of applications such as laundry detergents, industrial cleaners, adjuvants, and oil & gas. Surfactants in these applications can be nonionic, anionic, cationic, or amphoteric. Utilizing high oleic soybean oil as a platform chemical, a vari...