ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,990, issued on July 22, was assigned to NOURYON CHEMICALS INTERNATIONAL B.V. (Arnhem, Netherlands).

"MySx/ZSH mixture as sulfidizing agent" was invented by Matthias Folchnandt (Cologne, Germany), Olaf Klobes (Greiz, Germany), Ulises Picardi (El Prat de Llobregat, Spain), Rodrigo M. Gimenez (Santiago, Chile) and Leandro Prats (Santa Fe, Argentina).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure is directed to a sulfidizing agent obtainable by mixing MySx and ZSH in a weight ratio of from about 90:10 to about 10:90, wherein M is chosen from Li+, Na+, K+, Rb+, Cs+, NH4+, Mg2+ and Ca2+, y is about 1 or about 2, x is from about 1.1 to about ...