ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,671, issued on April 14, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Process for preparing foamed polymer-modified bitumen compositions" was invented by Timo Mangel (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Maik Schacht (Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Germany), Michael Dietzsch (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Frank Wagner (Wittlich, Germany), Uwe Vagt (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Susanne Schneider (Trostberg, Germany), Carmen-Elena Cimpeanu (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Ekkehard Jahns (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany) and Sophie Putzien (Trostberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a process for p...