ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,356, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Duesseldorf, Germany).

"Crystalline polyesterpolyol" was invented by Adrian Brandt (Essen, Germany), Horst Beck (Neuss, Germany), Alexander Kux (Monheim, Germany), Bernhard M. Stadler (Rostock, Germany) and Johannes Gerardus De Vries (Rostock, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention refers to a polyesterpolyol which is obtained by reaction of at least one diol with at least one primary hydroxy group and at least one secondary hydroxy group with a saturated aliphatic dicarboxylic acid comprising a carbon chain of at least 12 carbon atoms. The invention fu...