US Patent Issued to BASF on Oct. 7 for "Melamine formaldehyde foam with reduced formaldehyde emission" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,199, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Melamine formaldehyde foam with reduced formaldehyde emission" was invented by Sebastian Alexander Weisse (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Zeljko Tomovic (Lemforde, Germany), Horst Baumgartl (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Werner Lenz (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Tobias Heinz Steinke (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Bernhard Vath (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany) and Iran Otero Martinez (Lemforde, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for lowering the formaldehyde emissions of melamine/formaldehyde polymer moldings, films or fibers by imp...