US Patent Issued to Takemoto Oil & Fat on May 27 for "Treatment agent for elastic fibers, and elastic fibers" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,738, issued on May 27, was assigned to Takemoto Oil & Fat Co. Ltd. (Gamagori, Japan).

"Treatment agent for elastic fibers, and elastic fibers" was invented by Takeshi Nishigawa (Gamagori, Japan), Jun Ito (Gamagori, Japan) and Kohei Oda (Gamagori, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an elastic fiber treatment agent that contains a polyether-modified silicone, a smoothing agent other than the polyether-modified silicone, and water. The polyether-modified silicone is contained in the elastic fiber treatment agent at a content of 0.01% by mass or more and 10% by mass or less. The polyether-modified silicone has a hydrophili...