ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,776, issued on July 8, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Process for making a granule" was invented by Marta Reinoso Garcia (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Sylke Haremza (Neckargemuend, Germany), Tile Gieshoff (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Dan-Tam Daniel Tang (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Thomas Schmidt (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Michael Klemens Mueller (Ludwigshafen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Process for making a powder or granule containing (A) at least one chelating agent selected from alkali metal salts of methyl glycine diacetic acid (MGDA) and of iminodisuccinic acid (IDS), (B) at least one compound of gene...