ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,812, issued on July 1, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).
"Gear oil composition" was invented by Qinggao Ma (Tarrytown, N.Y.), Rene Koschabek (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Philippe Rabbat (Maplewood, N.J.), Henrik Heinemann (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Karolin Monz (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Frank Rittig (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Nawid Kashani (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany) and Markus Scherer (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gear oil composition that has a kinematic viscosity at 40deg C. in the range of less than=68 to less than equal to1000 csdt when mea...