US Patent Issued to BASF on June 17 for "Process for starting up and shutting down a plant for removing isobutene from a C4-hydrocarbon mixture" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,017, issued on June 17, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen Am Rhein, Germany).

"Process for starting up and shutting down a plant for removing isobutene from a C4-hydrocarbon mixture" was invented by Hans-Guenter Wagner (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Suman Thotla (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Gerrit Waters (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Michael Huebner (Freeport, Texas), Markus Neudert (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Randolph Hugo (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 starting up a plant for removing is...