ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,677, issued on March 18, was assigned to SPECIALTY OPERATIONS FRANCE (Lyons, France).

"Prills of hydroquinone and method for obtaining the same" was invented by Rodolphe Sapey-Triomphe (Serezin-du-Rhone, France), Lars Fischer (Vienne, France) and David Vanzin (Franklin, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to new lightly colored prills of hydroquinone. More particularly, the invention provides a new method for preparing said lightly colored prills of hydroquinone. The invention also relates to said prills of hydroquinone obtained by said new method."

The patent was filed on Dec. 3, 2019, under Applicat...