US Patent Issued to BASF on Dec. 2 for "Use of alkoxypyrazoles as nitrification inhibitors" (Swiss, German, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,580, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany).

"Use of alkoxypyrazoles as nitrification inhibitors" was invented by Peter Nesvadba (Basel, Switzerland), Allan F. Cunningham (Basel, Switzerland), Barbara Nave (Limburgerhof, Germany), Alexander Wissemeier (Speyer, Germany), Shrirang Hindalekar (Mumbai, India) and Tejas Pothi (Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to novel nitrification inhibitors of formula I, which are alkoxypyrazole compounds. Moreover, the invention relates to the use of compounds of formula I as nitrification inhibitors, i.e. for reducing nitrification, a...