US Patent Issued to Fuchs Petrolub on July 1 for "Water-based lubricating grease compositions and methods for using the same" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,813, issued on July 1, was assigned to Fuchs Petrolub SE (Mannheim, Germany).

"Water-based lubricating grease compositions and methods for using the same" was invented by Nael Zaki (Kansas City, Kan.) and H. Ray Enyard Jr. (Kansas City, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water-based lubricating grease composition includes at least 40 wt % water; a salt-based thickener; a polymer-based thickener; and optionally, an inorganic solid-based thickener. A process for preparing the water-based lubricating grease composition may include blending a suitable amount of water with a salt-based thickener to provide a thickened water-based grease...