US Patent Issued to BASF on Sept. 16 for "Granules of MGDA and (meth)acrylic acid homo- or co-polymer; process for making the same" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,971, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Granules of MGDA and (meth)acrylic acid homo- or co-polymer; process for making the same" was invented by Michael Schoenherr (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Kati Schmidt (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Johannes Felix Haus (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Michael Klemens Mueller (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Frank Jaekel (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Marta Reinoso Garcia (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Volker Klock (Ludwigshafen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for making a granule containing (A) at least one chelating agent selected from alkali metal salts of methyl gl...