MUMBAI, India, April 25 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517034028 A) filed by Basf Se, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany, on April 7, for 'use of an alkylether sulfate for improving the efficacy of herbicides.'

Inventor(s) include Mertoglu Murat; Meiners Ingo; Molawi Kian; Long David A; and Kienle Marcel Patrik.

The application for the patent was published on April 25, under issue no. 17/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to use of an alkylether sulfate of the formula (I) [R O (A O)n SO3] M+ (I) in which M+ is a cation; A is C2 C3 alkandiyl; R is branched C10 alkyl; and n is an integer in the range of 1 to 10; for increasing the he...