US Patent Issued to BASF on April 8 for "Process for the production of anhydrous methanesulfonic acid from methane and SO3" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,791, issued on April 8, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Process for the production of anhydrous methanesulfonic acid from methane and SO3" was invented by Frieder Borgmeier (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Frank Piepenbreier (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Andreas Kempter (Ludwigshafen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a process for manufacturing of anhydrous methanesulfonic acid (MSA) and to methanesulfonic acid manufactured by said process and its uses."

The patent was filed on April 14, 2020, under Application No. 17/604,694.

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