US Patent Issued to BASF on Feb. 24 for "Use of N-functionalized alkoxy pyrazole compounds as nitrification inhibitors" (Swiss, German, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,442, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany).

"Use of N-functionalized alkoxy pyrazole compounds as nitrification inhibitors" was invented by Peter Nesvadba (Schweizerhalle, Switzerland), Allan F. Cunningham (Basel, Switzerland), Shrirang Hindalekar (Mumbai, India), Barbara Nave (Limburgerhof, Germany), Tejas Pothi (Mumbai, India), Olof Wallquist (Basel, Switzerland) and Alexander Wissemeier (Speyer, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the use of novel nitrification inhibitors of formula I, which are N-functionalized alkoxy pyrazole compounds. Moreover, the invention rela...