ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,912, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany) and TRINAMIX GMBH (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Communication system, monitoring system and related methods" was invented by Kai Uwe Binder (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Georg Sieder (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Wolfgang Ferstl (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Torsten Katz (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Gerd Modes (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Wilfried Hermes (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Felix Schmidt (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Michel Valentin Kettner (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Jochen Brill (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Christoph Lungenschmied (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Di...