ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,849, issued on July 22, was assigned to Infineum International Ltd. (Milton Hill, Great Britain).
"Lubricant composition containing metal alkanoate" was invented by Benjamin G. N. Chappell (Abingdon, Great Britain), Mark Peter Driver (Abingdon, Great Britain), Emily C. Mason (Abingdon, Great Britain) and Alice H. Leung (Reading, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to a lubricating composition comprising or resulting from the admixing of: base oil, detergent, and one or more metal alkanoates having a quaternary carbon atom at the 2 position, the 2' position, or both the 2 and 2' positions, where the lub...