US Patent Issued to Linde, Clariant International on Nov. 4 for "Process and system for preparing a target compound" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,878, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Linde GmbH (Pullach, Germany) and Clariant International Ltd. (Muttenz, Switzerland).

"Process and system for preparing a target compound" was invented by Mathieu Zellhuber (Martinsried, Germany), Martin Schubert (Munich), Andreas Meiswinkel (Rimsting, Germany), Wolfgang Muller (Munich), Gerhard Mestl (Bruckmuhl, Germany), Klaus Wanninger (Bruckmuhl, Germany) and Peter Scheck (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a target compound includes distributing a feed mixture containing ethane to multiple reaction tubes of a shell-and-tube reactor arranged in parallel, and subjecti...