US Patent Issued to The Willamette Valley on May 27 for "Wax-organic extender emulsion and method for manufacture thereof" (Oregon, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,470, issued on May 27, 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, Ga.), 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 including a plurality of wax-extender complex particles suspended in water is described. A wax-extender complex includes a wax component, an organic extender component and a surfactant that stabilizes the wax component and the organic extender compone...