US Patent Issued to KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE on March 4 for "High-capacity superabsorbent materials and methods of making same" (Georgia, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,959, issued on March 4, 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.), Denise V. Taylor (Riverdale, Ga.) and Richmond R. Cohen (Appleton, Wis.).

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 super absorbent materials are copolymerized with select redox active inorganic salts in a staged polymerization process. The copolymer-based super absorbent materials have significantly improved absorbance properties. The...