ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,540, issued on July 8, was assigned to Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Duesseldorf, Germany).
"Process for preparing cyanoacetates" was invented by Cormac Duffy (County Louth, Ireland), Justine O'Sullivan (County Kildare, Ireland), Ciara Goff (County Wexford, Ireland), Umar Farid (County Dublin, Ireland), Jessica Ramos (County Kildare, Ireland), Michael Thai Trung King (Dublin), Isidro Cobo Cardenete (Dublin), Marisa Phelan (Dublin) and Barry Burns (Dublin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to a process for producing cyanoacetates using asparagine as a precursor to cyanoacetamide, a staring material to form the cyanoacetates....