US Patent Issued to KUSUMOTO CHEMICALS on Oct. 14 for "Rheology control agent and curable composition using the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,884, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to KUSUMOTO CHEMICALS LTD. (Tokyo).

"Rheology control agent and curable composition using the same" was invented by Kyohei Nakano (Saitama, Japan), Hiroki Ouchi (Saitama, Japan) and Kenji Fukui (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rheology control agent for a curable composition includes: a diamide compound (A) and/or a hydrogenated castor oil (A'), the diamide compound (A) being obtained by condensation reaction between a diamine component (A1) and a monocarboxylic acid component (A2); and a polyamide compound (B) obtained by polycondensation of an amine component (B1) and a carboxyli...