Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
9 patents granted to the 2 names below, as the owner printed on each patent when it was granted. A later sale, a lapse or an expiry is not read, so this is what was granted to Future Fuel Corporation’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
9
9 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
none
Against 1 in 2024 and none in 2023
Applications published
5
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
2
a subsidiary
By yearGrantedApplications published
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
Macromolecular chemistry, polymers1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name2 counted
FutureFuel Chemical Company a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
2 publishedFutureFuel Chemical Company a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
3 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Nov 19, 2024 | 12,146,029 | Polymers enhanced with hydrated sodium sulfoisophthalic acid salts | Macromolecular chemistry, polymers | FutureFuel Chemical Company |
| Jun 7, 2016 | 9,359,292 | Use of an acetic acid/water solvent mixture for the preparation of low-sulfate 5-sulfoisophthalic acid, mono-lithium salt from 5-sulfoisophthalic acid | Organic fine chemistry | FutureFuel Chemical Company |
| Dec 15, 2015 | 9,212,133 | 5-sulfoisophthalic acid salts and process for the preparation thereof | Organic fine chemistry | FutureFuel Chemical Company |
| Nov 24, 2015 | 9,193,677 | Metal salts of a dialkyl ester of 5-sulfoisophthalic acid and method of preparing same | Macromolecular chemistry, polymers | FutureFuel Chemical Company |
| Nov 11, 2014 | 8,884,045 | Use of an acetic acid wash to prepare low-sulfate 5-sulfoisophthalic acid, mono-lithium salt | Organic fine chemistry | FutureFuel Chemical Company |
| Aug 19, 2014 | 8,809,565 | 5-sulfoisophthalic acid salts and process for the preparation thereof | Organic fine chemistry | FutureFuel Chemical Company |
| Jul 8, 2014 | 8,772,522 | Salts of 5-sulfoisophthalic acid and method of making same | Organic fine chemistry | FutureFuel Chemical Company |
| Mar 26, 2013 | 8,404,886 | Purification of 5-sulfoisophthalic acid by the use of an acetic acid wash on a crude cake | Organic fine chemistry | FutureFuel Chemical Company |
| May 15, 2012 | 8,178,648 | Diaminium bis-3,5-dicarboxybenzensulfonate and tri-diaminium bis-3,5-dicarboxybenzensulfonate and methods for producing same | Organic fine chemistry | FutureFuel Chemical Company |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Mar 17, 2016 | 2016/0075644 | 5-Sulfoisophthalic Acid Salts | Organic fine chemistry | FutureFuel Chemical Company |
| Mar 3, 2016 | 2016/0060213 | Metal Salts of a Dialkyl Ester of 5-Sulfoisophthalic Acid | Organic fine chemistry | FutureFuel Chemical Company |
| Oct 30, 2014 | 2014/0323751 | 5-SULFOISOPHTHALIC ACID SALTS AND PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION THEREOF | Organic fine chemistry | FutureFuel Chemical Company · patent 9,212,133 granted from it |
| Aug 28, 2014 | 2014/0243252 | LAUNDRY DETERGENT FORMULATION | Basic materials chemistry | FutureFuel Chemical Company |
| Aug 15, 2013 | 2013/0211120 | USE OF AN ACETIC ACID WASH TO PREPARE LOW-SULFATE 5-SULFOISOPHTHALIC ACID, MONO-LITHIUM SALT | Organic fine chemistry | FutureFuel Chemical Company · patent 8,884,045 granted from it |
A patent is counted where the owner printed on it when it was granted carries the company’s own name, a former name, the name of a subsidiary its annual report lists, or its own name with a patent-holding phrase (Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property and the like), once the legal form, case and punctuation are set aside, and prints a country that name counts in. PatentsView’s data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: PatentsView's granted patents and pre-grant publications, disambiguated, from the USPTO's Open Data Portal, through Dec 31, 2025, read Oct 27, 2026.