US Patent Issued to CLARIANT INTERNATIONAL on Nov. 25 for "Ethoxylated glycerol ester-containing detergent for machine dishwashing" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,073, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to CLARIANT INTERNATIONAL LTD (Muttenz, Switzerland).

"Ethoxylated glycerol ester-containing detergent for machine dishwashing" was invented by Hannah Benson (Heppenheim, Germany), Felix Hovelmann (Muhldorf, Germany) and Dirk Leinweber (Kelkheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detergent composition for machine dishwashing comprising Z1) one or more ethoxylated glycerol esters of formula (I),prepared from ethylene oxide and one or more triglycerides of formula (II) in the presence of a calcium catalyst (C), characterized in that R1, R2 and R3 in formulae (I) and (II) are equal or differen...