US Patent Issued to BASF on June 16 for "Process for removing water from a particulate material" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,059, issued on June 16, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Process for removing water from a particulate material" was invented by Timo Hensler (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Andreas Michael Kern (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Raquel Fiz Gonzalez (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Thorsten Beierling (Ludwigshafen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a process for removing water from a particulate material selected from (oxy)hydroxides and carbonates containing at least one of nickel, cobalt, and at least one metal other than nickel. The process includes the step of introducing at least one particulate mate...