ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,807, issued on March 4, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).

"Processes for purification, recovery, and conversion of chlorophenol salts and preparation and recovery of products prepared therefrom" was invented by Howard C. Berk (St. Louis), Bruno de Kort (St. Louis), John Joseph Parlow (Arnold, Mo.), Amy E. Stroman (Hazelwood, Mo.) and Junqiu Yang (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention generally relates to processes for purification, recovery, and conversion of chlorophenol salts (e.g., 2,5-dichlorophenol and salts thereof). In various aspects, the present invention is related to removing one...