US Patent Issued to Henkel on Oct. 21 for "Method for preparing an at least partially exfoliated clay" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,522, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Duesseldorf, Germany).

"Method for preparing an at least partially exfoliated clay" was invented by Hanns Misiak (Haan, Germany), Ligang Zhao (Duesseldorf, Germany), Hans-Georg Kinzelmann (Pulheim, Germany), Sonja Amschler (Hollfeld, Germany), Lina Mayr (Bayreuth, Germany), Josef Breu (Bayreuth, Germany) and Andreas Edenharter (Waidhofen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for preparing an at least partially exfoliated clay. The present invention further relates to an at least partially exfoliated clay obtainable by such a method and t...