Patent ID: 7846224

Claim:
A method to improve the low temperature compatibility of an amide friction modifier in a fuel, said method comprising combining a hyper-branched fatty acid amide with a fuel, wherein the hyper-branched fatty acid amide has the following structure: where at least two of R 1 , R 2 , and R 3 represents a C 1 to C 20 alkyl group and the remaining of R 1 , R 2 and R 3 represents a C 1 to C 20 alkyl group or hydrogen, where the C 1 to C 20 alkyl group of at least one of R 1 , R 2 , and R 3 is branched or cyclic, and where R 4 , and R 5 each independently represents hydrogen, an alkyl group, an alkanol, or hydroxyalkyl group.