US Patent Issued to The Willamette Valley on June 3 for "Wax-organic extender emulsion and method for manufacture thereof" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,816, issued on June 3, was assigned to The Willamette Valley Co. LLC (Eugene, Ore.).

"Wax-organic extender emulsion and method for manufacture thereof" was invented by Jesse L. Paris (Eugene, Ore.), Matthew G. Peterson (Eugene, Ore.), James A. Livings (Lithonia, Ore.), Sudip Chowdhury (Eugene, Ore.) and Curtis G. Burton (Eugene, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wax-extender emulsion is described herein. In one aspect, the wax-extender emulsion includes a wax component. The wax component may be a petroleum-based wax, a bio-based wax, a synthetic wax or mixtures thereof. The wax-extender emulsion includes a dewatered, kraft lignin ...