US Patent Issued to Enza Biotech, Croda International on Feb. 3 for "Surfactant preparation process" (Swedish, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,344, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Enza Biotech AB (Lund, Sweden) and Croda International PLC (Goole, Great Britain).

"Surfactant preparation process" was invented by Stefan Ulvenlund (Lund, Sweden), Maria Andersson (Lund, Sweden), Maria Viloria Cols (Lund, Sweden), Nikolina Barchan (Lund, Sweden), Christian Wells (Goole, Great Britain), Johan Sander (Lund, Sweden) and Magdalena Axenstrand (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An enzymatic process for the preparation of C16 alkyl polyglycosides and/or C18 alkyl polyglycosides by reacting C16 alkyl glycoside and/or C18 alkyl glycoside with a glycosyl donor containing monosac...