US Patent Issued to BASF on Dec. 30 for "Sulfonate electroplating bath, process for refining metal by electrolytic depositing and process for controlling metal morphology in electrolytic refining" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,789, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Sulfonate electroplating bath, process for refining metal by electrolytic depositing and process for controlling metal morphology in electrolytic refining" was invented by Si Jun Zhu (Shanghai), Jin Bo Song (Shanghai), Jing Cheng Xia (Shanghai), Yong Ming Chen (Hunan, China), Cong Chang (Hunan, China), You Gang Li (Hunan, China), Chang Liu Xiang (Hunan, China) and Sheng Hai Yang (Hunan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an electroplating bath comprising (A) an alkane sulfonic acid or alkanol sulfonic acid; (B) a solu...