US Patent Issued to BASF on April 29 for "Forecasting the progress of coking and fouling for improved production planning in chemical production plants" (Belgian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,597, issued on April 29, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Forecasting the progress of coking and fouling for improved production planning in chemical production plants" was invented by Simeon Sauer (Heidelberg, Germany), Daniel Keck (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Eric Jenne (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Alexander Badinski (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Miriam Angela Anna Hahkala (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Bart Blankers (Antwerp, Belgium), Hendrik De Winne (Antwerp, Belgium) and Britta Carolin Buck (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to predict the future ev...