ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,528, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany).

"Process for the preparation of piperidine compounds" was invented by Alexander Michael Haydl (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Michael Schmitt (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Klaus Becker (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Dirk Bethke (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Elena Capito' (Pontecchio Marconi, Italy) and Johann-Peter Melder (Ludwigshafen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to process for the preparation of a compound of formula (1), wherein R1 and R2 are independently from each other C1-C8alkyl, which comprises reacting a compound of formula (2), with a...