US Patent Issued to SICPA HOLDING on Dec. 30 for "Method for determining authenticity and adulteration of marked petroleum hydrocarbons" (Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,529, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SICPA HOLDING SA (Prilly, Switzerland).

"Method for determining authenticity and adulteration of marked petroleum hydrocarbons" was invented by Martin Zuhlke (Berlin), Daniel Riebe (Potsdam, Germany), Toralf Beitz (Potsdam, Germany), Thomas Tiller (Bussigny, Switzerland), Juan Lopez Gejo (Lausanne, Switzerland) and Unige Laskay (St. Sulpice, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method for determining the authenticity of a petroleum hydrocarbon allegedly comprising at least one specific chemical marker, as well as a method for determining adulteration of a ...