US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO BAKELITE, RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR THE EARTH on May 13 for "Water-soluble additive composition" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,394, issued on May 13, was assigned to SUMITOMO BAKELITE Co. LTD. (Tokyo) and RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR THE EARTH (Kyoto, Japan).

"Water-soluble additive composition" was invented by Ryuichi Murata (Tokyo), Yusuke Inoue (Tokyo), Daisuke Fujiwara (Tokyo), Kenya Tachibana (Tokyo) and Hiroyuki Miyauchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a water-soluble additive composition including a cyclic carboxylic acid, the water-soluble additive composition satisfying at least one of the following Conditions 1 to 4: (Condition 1) component (A) the cyclic carboxylic acid, which is other than the following ...