ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,039, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Method and device for producing marbled molded parts and method for producing the device" was invented by Reinhard Jakobi (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Angelika Homes (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Susanne Zeiher (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Daniel Leutz (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Natascha Manuela Meierhoefer (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Rafael Gimenez Casat (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Marcus Imo (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Sascha Tim Schwendy (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Leonhard Ullrich (Ludwigshafen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a process for prod...