ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,864, issued on July 15, was assigned to Milliken & Co. (Spartanburg, S.C.).

"Trisamide compounds and compositions comprising the same" was invented by Daniel Kremer (Bayreuth, Germany), Hans-Werner Schmidt (Bayreuth, Germany), Paul Smith (Klosters, Switzerland), John David Anderson (Woodruff, S.C.), Suchitra Datta (Spartanburg, S.C.), Keith Keller (Spartanburg, S.C.), Nathan Mehl (Spartanburg, S.C.) and Walter Scrivens (Moore, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A trisamide compound has the structure of Formula (I)in which R1, R2, and R3 are independently selected from the group consisting of alkyl groups. A polymer composition compr...