US Patent Issued to TAIYO KAGAKU on Dec. 9 for "Compound in which polyglycerol, fatty acid, and dicarboxylic acid have been esterified" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,150, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to TAIYO KAGAKU Co. LTD. (Yokkaichi, Japan).

"Compound in which polyglycerol, fatty acid, and dicarboxylic acid have been esterified" was invented by Ayae Imao (Yokkaichi, Japan), Yoshiyuki Matsumoto (Yokkaichi, Japan) and Tomonori Higuchi (Yokkaichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compound which is an ester of a polyglycerol, a fatty acid and a dicarboxylic acid, wherein the compound satisfies the following (A) to (D): (A) an average degree of polymerization of the polyglycerol is from 2 to 20; (B) among the total fatty acid, a total proportion of an unsaturated fatty acid and a branched fa...