ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,778, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to NYCO (Paris).

"Use of a polyalkoxysiloxane-based oil as a lubricating agent" was invented by Christophe Corbun (Nesles-la-Vallee, France), Jean-Louis Mansoux (Le Plessis-Bouchard, France), Christelle Louise (Houilles, France) and Gregoire Herve (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the use of a polyalkoxysiloxane base oil of formula (I)in which each R1 is independently a C1 to C4 alkyl group or a phenyl, each R2 is independently a C2 to C22 alkyl or alkenyl group or a phenyl, R3 is either a methyl group or a CH2 group connected to the other R3 group by a single ...