US Patent Issued to BASF on Sept. 16 for "Heterogeneous catalysts for the direct carbonylation of nitro aromatic compounds to isocyanates" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,780, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Heterogeneous catalysts for the direct carbonylation of nitro aromatic compounds to isocyanates" was invented by Sven Titlbach (Heidelberg, Germany), Andreas Kuschel (Heidelberg, Germany), Carlos Lizandara (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Stephan A. Schunk (Heidelberg, Germany), Joerg Rother (Heidelberg, Germany), Juergen Bechtel (Heidelberg, Germany), Nedko Stefanov Drebov (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Stefan Maixner (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Matthias Hinrichs (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Mohamed Halabi (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Imke Britta Mueller (Ludwigshafen am Rhein...