US Patent Issued to BASF on Aug. 5 for "Microparticle composition comprising an organic IR absorbing pigment" (German, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,424, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Microparticle composition comprising an organic IR absorbing pigment" was invented by Roland Hinrich Staff (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Yannick Fuchs (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Helmut Reichelt (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Hans Reichert (Basel, Switzerland), Oliver Seeger (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Korinna Dormann (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany) and Bernd Dieter Oschmann (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to microparticle compositions comprising an organic IR absorbing pigm...