US Patent Issued to DOW GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on May 27 for "Process for producing a crosslinked cellulose ether" (German, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,420, issued on May 27, was assigned to DOW GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Midland, Mich.).

"Process for producing a crosslinked cellulose ether" was invented by Alexandra Hild (Soltau, Germany), Joerg Neubauer (Hamburg, Germany), Steffen Schmidt (Bomlitz, Germany) and Robert Baumann (Rueschlikon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for producing a crosslinked cellulose ether including contacting an activated cellulose material with (i) an aqueous crosslinking agent emulsion, wherein the aqueous crosslinking agent emulsion is a mixture of (ia) at least one crosslinking agent; (ib) water; and (ic) any other optional componen...