US Patent Issued to NIPPON SHOKUBAI on Jan. 13 for "Absorbent material, water absorbent and method for producing water absorbent" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,465, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to NIPPON SHOKUBAI Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Absorbent material, water absorbent and method for producing water absorbent" was invented by Kazuki Kimura (Himeji, Japan), Reiko Nakatsuru (Himeji, Japan), Daisuke Takeda (Himeji, Japan) and Yudai Fujii (Himeji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are: a water-absorbing agent achieving, in a balanced manner, both good physical properties and a decrease in speed of coloration with lapse of time even if the water-absorbing agent has a high moisture absorbing speed due to having a large specific surface area; and an absorbent body having a low ...