ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,435, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Determining operating conditions in chemical production plants" was invented by Phil Jack Holzmeister (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Florina Corina Patcas (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Christoph Mueller (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Maik Friedel (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany) and Corinna Maria Spangler (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for determining an operating condition of a chemical production plant including at least one catalytic reactor are provided. Via a communication interface op...