US Patent Issued to Givaudan on July 1 for "Process for making a conjugated diene from an allyl alcohol" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,569, issued on July 1, was assigned to Givaudan SA (Vernier, Switzerland).

"Process for making a conjugated diene from an allyl alcohol" was invented by Fridtjof Schroder (Hettlingen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-situ method for making a conjugated diene from an allyl alcohol comprising the conversion of the allyl alcohol to an allyl carbonate, allyl ester or allyl formate with concomitant or subsequent conversion of the allyl carbonate, allyl ester or allyl formate to the conjugated diene; the products obtained by said method, and the uses of said products."

The patent was filed on June 15, 2021, under Applicatio...