ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,531, issued on April 21, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany).

"Preparation of substituted 3-aryl-5-trifluoromethyl-1,2,4-oxadiazoles" was invented by Florian Vogt (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Kailaskumar Borate (Navi Mumbai, India), Bernd Wolf (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Christopher Koradin (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Roland Goetz (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Harish Shinde (Navi Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of substituted 3-aryl-5-trifluoromethyl-1,2,4-oxadiazoles of formula (I), which can be obtained through reaction of amidoxime compounds of formula (I...