ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,587, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Blend composition comprising petroleum coke and pyrolytic carbon for electrodes" was invented by Frederik Scheiff (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Marc Leduc (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Andreas Bode (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Sabine Eichhorn (Ludwigshafen, Germany), William Daloz (Beachwood, Ohio) and Julien Wyss (Granges, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blend composition including a mixture of (i) petroleum coke in a content of 20 to 99 weight-%; and (ii) pyrolytic carbon in a content of 1 to 80 weight-%, in view of the total weight of the blend composi...