US Patent Issued to CAMERON INTERNATIONAL on Oct. 28 for "Hyperbranched corrosion inhibitors" (Norwegian, British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,640, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to CAMERON INTERNATIONAL Corp. (Houston).

"Hyperbranched corrosion inhibitors" was invented by Chandrashekhar Yeshwant Khandekar (Humble, Texas), Rachael Anne Hughes (Sandnes, Norway), Tore Nordvik (Sandnes, Norway), Kevin Paul Ramirez (Houston), Bastian Sauerer (Houston) and Alyn Edward Jenkins (Aberdeen, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide corrosion inhibitors that use hyperbranched polymer molecules functionalized with amino carboxylic acids, epoxides, and/or long chain fatty acids, or combinations thereof. Nitrogen atoms in such molecules can be qu...