US Patent Issued to KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE on March 4 for "Superabsorbent material absorbent capacity increase with use of multifunctional chemical agents" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,746, issued on March 4, was assigned to KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE INC. (Neenah, Wis.).

"Superabsorbent material absorbent capacity increase with use of multifunctional chemical agents" was invented by Kaiyuan Yang (Cumming, Ga.) and Xuedong Song (Alpharetta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for increasing absorbent capacity of a superabsorbent material (SAM) by treating the SAM with a selected multifunctional chemical agent (MCA) or a combination of a plurality of selected MCAs is described herein. The selected MCA(s) may interact with the polymer chain of the SAM through one or a plurality of mechanisms that enhance the ab...