ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,382, issued on June 24, was assigned to Harcros Chemicals Inc. (Kansas City, Mo.).
"Surfactants having non-conventional hydrophobes" was invented by Upali Weerasooriya (Austin, Texas), Peter Radford (Lenexa, Kan.), Kevin Sikkema (Overland Park, Kan.), John Boorem (Kansas City, Kan.), Aaron Boorem (Leavenworth, Kan.), Kurt Cheshire (Shawnee, Kan.), Kishore K. Mohanty (Austin, Texas), Krishna Panthi (Cedar Park, Texas), Himanshu Sharma (Austin, Texas) and Pinaki Ghosh (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to surfactants with small hydrophobes, which are of non-conventional hydrophobe size. The ...