Patent ID: 8383572

Claim:
A cleaning composition comprising a suds boosting and stabilizing biopolymer comprising a randomly substituted linear or branched biopolymer backbone having a structure: wherein the randomly substituted polymer backbone comprises the residues of at least one unsubstituted monomer and at least one substituted monomer, wherein the residues of the at least one unsubstituted and the at least one substituted monomers are independently selected from the group consisting of amino acid residues, furanose residues, 1-4 Alpha-D glucopyranose residues, 1-6 alpha D-glucopyranose residues, and mixtures of any thereof, and the residue of the substituted monomer further comprises —(R) p substituent groups, wherein: p is n integer from 1 to 3, and each R substituent is independently selected from the group consisting of: anionic substituent, alkoxy substituent, or nitrogen containing substituent, and the R substituents are selected such that the suds boosting and stabilizing biopolymer has: a. a degree of substitution ranging from 0.0001 to 2.0 of an anionic substituent and a degree of substitution ranging from 0.01 to 0.04 of a nitrogen containing substituent; or b. a degree of substitution ranging from 0.001 to 1.0 of an alkoxy substituent, a degree of substitution ranging from 0.0001 to 2.0 of an anionic substituent and a degree of substitution ranging from 0.01 to 0.04 of a nitrogen containing substituent, wherein the ratio of the degree of substitution of the nitrogen containing substituent to the degree of substitution of the anionic substituent ranges from 0.05:1 to 0.2:1, and wherein the suds boosting and stabilizing biopolymer has a weight average molecular weight ranging from 10,000 Daltons to 100,000,000 Daltons.