US Patent Issued to Church & Dwight on Dec. 9 for "Methods and compositions for controlling flow in clay-based materials" (New Jersey Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,708, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Church & Dwight Co. Inc. (Princeton, N.J.).

"Methods and compositions for controlling flow in clay-based materials" was invented by Steven T. Adamy (Lawrenceville, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods for controlling swelling of a clay when in contact with an aqueous medium. The methods may include contacting clay with a content of an ionic liquid sufficient to modify one or more transport properties of water through the clay. In particular, in some embodiments, the present disclosure provides clay-based animal litter compositions having controlled flow and ...