US Patent Issued to BASF on Feb. 25 for "Methods for producing crystalline L-glufosinate ammonium monohydrate" (Maryland, Delaware Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,234,254, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany).

"Methods for producing crystalline L-glufosinate ammonium monohydrate" was invented by Brian Michael Green (Lutherville, Md.), Rachel Melissa Witek (New Market, Md.), Nadejda Pavlova (Gaithersburg, Md.) and Matthew Richard Oberholzer (Wilmington, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for preparing crystalline L-glufosinate ammonium monohydrate are disclosed. The methods include forming a mixture comprising water, a water-miscible organic solvent, ammonium hydroxide, and a glufosinate starting material containing L-glufosinate ammonium and D-glufosinate amm...