US Patent Issued to Kimberly-Clark Worldwide on Feb. 25 for "High-capacity superabsorbent materials and methods of making same" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,400, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Kimberly-Clark Worldwide Inc. (Neenah, Wis.).

"High-capacity superabsorbent materials and methods of making same" was invented by Kaiyuan Yang (Cumming, Ga.), Xuedong Song (Alpharetta, Ga.), Teresa E. Peterson (Alpharetta, Ga.) and Wade R. Thompson (Cumming, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are super absorbent materials (SAMs) and methods of making SAMs. The SAMs are copolymerized after formation of monomer complexes to incorporate select inorganic salts into the polymerized SAMS. The SAMs are copolymerized with select stable inorganic salts and/or with select redox active in...