US Patent Issued to Conopco on Feb. 10 for "Detergent compositions comprising secondary alkane sultanate, a second anionic surfactant, and alkyl hydroxysultaine cosurfactant" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,856, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Conopco Inc. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.).

"Detergent compositions comprising secondary alkane sultanate, a second anionic surfactant, and alkyl hydroxysultaine cosurfactant" was invented by David Stephen Grainger (Chester, Great Britain), Uyai Ikpatt (Prenton, Great Britain), Paul Simon Stevenson (Liverpool, Great Britain) and David Christopher Thorley (Shavington, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detergent composition that includes from 1 to 40 wt. % of a secondary alkane sulfonate surfactant with an average of 15 to 18 carbon atoms in a linear alkane chain, from 1 to 40 wt. % of an...