ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,221, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany).

"Preparation of substituted 4-(N'-hydroxycarbamimidoyl)benzoic acids" was invented by Florian Vogt (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Kailaskumar Borate (Navi Mumbai, India), Bernd Wolf (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Joachim Gebhardt (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Guillaume Michel Jacques Garivet (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Harish Shinde (Navi Mumbai, India) and Roland Goetz (Ludwigshafen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of substituted 4-(N'-hydroxy-carbamimidoyl)benzoic acids, which can be obtained by nitrilase catalyz...