ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,785, issued on July 22, was assigned to Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, Tenn.).
"Glycol ether aryl ester plasticizer" was invented by Pinguan Zheng (Johnson City, Tenn.), Curtis Louis Schilling III (Kingsport, Tenn.), Cornelius Johannes Hermans (Heinkenszand, Netherlands), Joseph Alexander DeLoach (Jonesborough, Tenn.) and Damon Ray Billodeaux (Longview, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is the use of glycol ether aryl ester plasticizers as viscosity reducing agents in plastisols comprising di(2-ethylhexyl) terephthalate, 1,2-cyclohexane dicarboxylic acid diisononyl ester, or diisononyl phthalate as the primary plastici...