ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,603, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).
"Production of porous alpha-alumina supports from boehmitic derived aluminas" was invented by Sung Yeun Choi (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Andrey Karpov (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Christian Walsdorff (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany) and Karl C. Kharas (Iselin, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A porous alpha-alumina catalyst support is prepared by (i) preparing a precursor material comprising a boehmitic-derived alumina having a pore volume of at least 0.6 mL/g, wherein the boehmitic-derived alumina is obtained by thermal decomposition of a b...