US Patent Issued to BASF, thyssenkrupp, thyssenkrupp Uhde on June 17 for "Electrically heated, hybrid high-temperature method" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,741, issued on June 17, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), thyssenkrupp AG (Essen, Germany) and thyssenkrupp Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany).

"Electrically heated, hybrid high-temperature method" was invented by Frederik Scheiff (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Grigorios Kolios (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Andreas Bode (Ludwigshafen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of continuously performing one or more heat-consuming processes, where at least one heat-consuming process is electrically heated. The maximum temperature in the reaction zone of the heat-consuming process is higher than 500deg C., at least 70% ...