ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,382, issued on July 29, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen Am Rhein, Germany).
"Star-shaped ceramic body for use as catalyst" was invented by Robert Terorde (De Meern, Netherlands), Harry Bouwman (De Meern, Netherlands), Willem Dijkstra (De Meern, Netherlands), Stefan Lipp (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany) and Matthias Georg Schwab (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Star-shaped ceramic body, wherein the cross-section of the body has six lobes, the ratio of the maximum radius r2 in the star to radius r1 of a circle connecting the intersections of the lobes being in the range from 1.0 to 3.61, preferably f...