US Patent Issued to Evonik Operations on Dec. 30 for "Method and system for process control" (German, Singaporean, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,186, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Evonik Operations GmbH (Essen, Germany).

"Method and system for process control" was invented by Thomas Lammersen (Boeblingen, Germany), Benny Hartono (Singapur, Singapore), Hans-Joachim Hasselbach (Gelnhausen, Germany) and Danny De Corte (Sint-Niklaas, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a chemical process, by preparing methanol, hydrogen sulfide, methyl mercaptan, hydrocyanic acid, acrolein, 3-methylthiopropionaldehyde, 5-(2-methylmercaptoethyl)-hydantoin, methionine, a salt of methionine, and a derivative of methionine. The method includes providing a training set...