ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,446, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).
"Hydrogenation of l-sorbose" was invented by Thomas Schaub (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Alois Kindler (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Steffen Mader (Ludwigshafen, Germany), A. Stephen K. Hashmi (Heidelberg, Germany) and Daniel James Tindall (Weinheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a process for L-Iditol by hydrogenating L-Sorbose. Further, the invention also relates to a use of a transition metal complex as hydrogenation catalyst for L-Sorbose. The invention relates to a process for the preparation of L-Iditol comprising at least ...