US Patent Issued to HANWHA SOLUTIONS on July 15 for "Method for producing laurolactam, device for synthesizing same, laurolactam composition produced thereby, and method for producing polylaurolactam using same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,872, issued on July 15, was assigned to HANWHA SOLUTIONS Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for producing laurolactam, device for synthesizing same, laurolactam composition produced thereby, and method for producing polylaurolactam using same" was invented by Jinho Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Jiyeon Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyun Seo (Daejeon, South Korea) and Namjin Jang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method of preparing laurolactam including: a) synthesizing laurolactam by Bechmann rearrangement of cyclododecanone oxime under a catalyst system, b) mixing the laurolactam synthesized in a) wit...