US Patent Issued to NIPPON SHOKUBAI on April 29 for "Water absorbent agent and method for producing water absorbent agent" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,739, issued on April 29, was assigned to NIPPON SHOKUBAI Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Water absorbent agent and method for producing water absorbent agent" was invented by Kazuki Kimura (Himeji, Japan) and Reiko Nakatsuru (Himeji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an easy method for producing a water absorbent agent that has a low moisture content and that has a small dust generation amount without decreasing various physical properties. A present inventive method for producing a water absorbent agent of the present invention includes mixing not lower than 0.06 parts by mass and not higher than 5 parts b...