US Patent Issued to BASF on July 8 for "Reduction of the odor of monothiocarbonate compounds by addition of oxidants" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,563, issued on July 8, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Reduction of the odor of monothiocarbonate compounds by addition of oxidants" was invented by Indre Thiel (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Thomas Maximilian Wurm (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany) and Peter Rudolf (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process reduces the odor of compounds with al least one five-membered cyclic monothiocarbonate group, referred to as monothiocarbonate compounds. The monothiocarbonate compounds are in are liquid phase and are brought into contact with an oxidant."

The patent was filed on Aug. 13,...