US Patent Issued to Board of Trustees of Western Michigan University on June 17 for "Glyoxylated starch additive for pulp products" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,467, issued on June 17, was assigned to Board of Trustees of Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

"Glyoxylated starch additive for pulp products" was invented by Abdus Salam (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A glyoxylate starch may be formed by dispersing a starch in a liquid to form a starch slurry. The starch may be one or more of a cationic starch, nonionic starch, and an anionic starch. 2-chloracetamide is added to the starch slurry mixture to form a first reaction mixture. The temperature of the first reaction mixture may then be raised, and then cooled to form a modified starch, and glyoxal may be adde...