ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,656, issued on March 18, was assigned to INDIAN OIL CORPORATION LIMITED (Mumbai, India).

"Additive composition for enhanced stability of oxygenated gasoline" was invented by Maya Chakradhar (Faridabad, India), Shanti Prakash (Faridabad, India), Ajay Kumar Arora (Faridabad, India), Vivekanand Kagdiyal (Faridabad, India), Deepak Saxena (Faridabad, India) and Sankara Sri Venkata Ramakumar (Faridabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses additive package comprising a mixture of (a) 6-10% by weight of fatty acid (b) 7-15% by weight of alkoxy ether and (c) 60-85% by weight of linear or branched chain monohy...