ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,923, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Conopco Inc. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.).
"Method of treatment of a surface" was invented by Jens Carlo Benninghoff (Dortmund, Germany), Panagiotis Kotsakis (Athens, Greece) and Neil James Parry (Tarporley, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method of treatment of a surface to improve the resistance of the surface to fouling from a photosynthetic species, the method comprising treatment of a surface prone to fouling from a photosynthetic organism with a composition comprising a lactam, wherein the composition comprises from 0.0001 to 5 wt. % of a lactam; and, w...