US Patent Issued to BASF on July 8 for "Process for obtaining isobutene from a C4-hydrocarbon mixture" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,536, issued on July 8, was assigned to BASF SE.

"Process for obtaining isobutene from a C4-hydrocarbon mixture" was invented by Hans-Guenter Wagner (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Suman Thotla (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Randolf Hugo (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Gerrit Waters (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Michael Huebner (Freeport, Texas), Markus Neudert (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany) and Thomas Roussiere (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a process for obtaining isobutene from an isobutene containing C4-hydrocarbon mixture (1) in a plant comprising an etherificat...