ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,213, issued on Aug. 5.
"Process for the hydrogenation of catnip oil" was invented by William Allen Boulanger (Mahomet, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including the steps of: (a) providing trans-cis nepetalactone; (b) providing sodium bicarbonate; (c) providing water; (d) providing methanol; (e) mixing the trans-cis nepetalactone, the sodium bicarbonate, the water, the methanol as a reaction mixture for approximately 15 hours at ambient temperature and pressure; (f) converting at least 95.2% of the nepetalactone to a ring open ester and/or aldehyde; (g) removing unreacted sodium bicarbonate via filtration; (h) transferrin...