ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,349, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Topsoe A/S (Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark).

"Process for the production of urea formaldehyde concentrate" was invented by Marcus Symreng (Malmo, Sweden), Pat A. Han (Smorum, Denmark) and Christian Henrik Speth (Lynge, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Parallel co-production process for the production of methanol and urea product from a hydrocarbon containing feedstock by means of autothermal reforming, intermediary methanol and ammonia formation and conversion of the ammonia to urea product and catalytic oxidation of the methanol to formaldehyde."

The patent was filed on March 5, 2020, under Appli...