US Patent Issued to BASF on July 28 for "Adsorbent bed for mercaptan removal with increased hydrothermal stability" (American, Emirati, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,404, issued on July 28, was assigned to BASF Corp. (Florham Park, N.J.).

"Adsorbent bed for mercaptan removal with increased hydrothermal stability" was invented by William B. Dolan (Iselin, N.J.), Justin Pan (Iselin, N.J.), Margaret Anne Greene (Iselin, N.J.), Tobias Eckardt (Nienburg/Weser, Germany) and Manish Mehta (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in certain embodiments are methods of removing water from a gas feed stream comprising mercaptans and water during an adsorption step of an adsorption cycle."

The patent was filed on June 26, 2021, under Application No. 18/011,222.

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