US Patent Issued to GOULSTON TECHNOLOGIES on May 27 for "Softening agent for textiles, aqueous solution of softening agent for textiles and method for producing same, and textile and method for producing same" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,739, issued on May 27, was assigned to GOULSTON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Monroe, N.C.).

"Softening agent for textiles, aqueous solution of softening agent for textiles and method for producing same, and textile and method for producing same" was invented by Xin Fei (Monroe, N.C.) and Srinivasan Ranganathan (Monroe, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a softening agent for textiles characterized by containing a compound (A) and a crosslinking agent (B). The compound (A) is a non-silicone compound having a polyoxyalkylene chain in the molecule, and has a functional group (R1) capable of producing an ether, an ester, or a nitrogen...