US Patent Issued to BASF on May 13 for "Process for preparing methanol from carbon dioxide and hydrogen with quantitative carbon dioxide utilization" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,167, issued on May 13, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Process for preparing methanol from carbon dioxide and hydrogen with quantitative carbon dioxide utilization" was invented by Maximilian Vicari (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Susanne Britzius (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Sven Reining (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Torsten Katz (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Thomas Geiger (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany) and Gerald Meyer (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for preparing methanol from carbon dioxide and hydrogen in a methanol synthesis unit and working up...