ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,220, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to CLARIANT INTERNATIONAL LTD (Muttenz, Switzerland).

"Bright rice bran wax oxidated with high esterane content" was invented by Philipp Kratzer (Wertingen, Germany), Manuel Broehmer (Grobenzell, Germany) and Rainer Fell (Gersthofen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to rice bran wax oxidates with an average acid value, to a process for their production and to their use for agricultural or forestry purposes, as an additive in plastics processing, in care products, in printing inks and/or in paints, and to saponified rice bran wax oxidates produced by saponifying the claime...