ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,209, issued on April 7, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen Am Rhein, Germany).

"Mixture comprising glyoxylic acid or condensation or addition products thereof" was invented by Harald Grassl (Trostberg, Germany), Joachim Dengler (Trostberg, Germany), Julien Bizzozero (Origlio, Switzerland) and Alexander Schobel (Trostberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to a mixture comprising at least one compound A selected from glyoxylic acid, salts thereof, and condensation or addition products of glyoxylic acid or salts thereof; and at least one polyhydroxy compound B. Furthermore, the present applicatio...