ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,904, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Duesseldorf, Germany).
"Method for preparing a particle- and surfactant-containing liquid" was invented by Alexander Tollkoetter (Hilden, Germany), Volker Blank (Leverkusen, Germany) and Gerd Boesemann (Duesseldorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including: a) providing a solvent-surfactant mixture; b) continuously passing the solvent-surfactant mixture through a main line; c) adjusting the yield point of the solvent-surfactant mixture in the main line to 0.1 to 10 Pa; d) continuously introducing particles having a diameter of 0.1 to 3 mm in the form of a ...