ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,509, issued on May 6, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Process for the preparation of UV absorbers" was invented by Rahul Garg (Navi Mumbai, India), Mushtaq Patel (Navi Mumbai, India), Prachin Kolambkar (Mumbai, India), Mileen Kadam (Mumbai, India), Deepak Makade (Mumbai, India) and Ramraj Bhatta (Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The presently claimed invention relates to a novel, highly efficient and general process for the preparation of UV absorbers."

The patent was filed on Jan. 2, 2020, under Application No. 17/421,326.

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