US Patent Issued to BASF on Aug. 5 for "Process for obtaining isobutene from a C4-hydrocarbon mixture" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,169, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Process for obtaining isobutene from a C4-hydrocarbon mixture" was invented by Hans-Guenter Wagner (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Randolph Hugo (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Thomas Roussiere (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Suman Thotla (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Gerrit Waters (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Michael Huebner (Freeport, Texas) and Markus Neudert (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a process for obtaining isobutene from an isobutene containing C4-hydrocarbon mixture (1) in...