US Patent Issued to BASF on June 16 for "Process for producing a porous alpha-alumina catalyst support" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,152, issued on June 16, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Process for producing a porous alpha-alumina catalyst support" was invented by Sung Yeun Choi (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Andrey Karpov (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Christian Walsdorff (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Patrick Hubach (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany) and Karl C. Kharas (Iselin, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for producing a porous alpha-alumina catalyst support, comprising i) preparing a precursor material; ii) forming the precursor material into shaped bodies; and iii) calcining the shaped bodies to obtain the...