ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,647, issued on June 3, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"2-(2,4,5-trimethylcyclohex-2-en-1-yl)acetaldehyde and derivatives and their use as aroma chemicals" was invented by Melanie Weingarten (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Wolfgang Siegel (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Silke Weyland (Lampertheim, Germany) and Ralf Pelzer (Lampertheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to 2-(2,4,5-trimethylcyclohex-2-en-1-yl)acetaldehyde and derivatives thereof, to a process for preparing said compounds, to the use of 2-(2,4,5-trimethylcyclohex-2-en-1-yl)acetaldehyde or a specific deriva...