US Patent Issued to Lubrizol Advanced Materials on Nov. 4 for "Redeposition inhibiting styrene maleic anhydride copolymers and detergent compositions containing same" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,160, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Lubrizol Advanced Materials Inc. (Cleveland).

"Redeposition inhibiting styrene maleic anhydride copolymers and detergent compositions containing same" was invented by Steven M. Raders (Macedonia, Ohio), Yunpeng Zhu (Fair Lawn, N.J.), Nima Hakim (Salford, Great Britain) and Janean Nagorski (Akron, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology relates to compositions useful as detergents in cleaning a wide variety of substrates, including laundry, hard surfaces and dish. The compositions contain a functionalized polymer which is prepared by reacting: i) a styrene/maleic anhydride cop...