US Patent Issued to BASF on March 24 for "Products obtained by the conversion of glycolaldehyde derivatives and aminating agents and their conversion to ethyleneamines and ethanolamines" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,827, issued on March 24, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Products obtained by the conversion of glycolaldehyde derivatives and aminating agents and their conversion to ethyleneamines and ethanolamines" was invented by Martin Ernst (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Tatjana Huber (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Johann-Peter Melder (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Stephanie Jaegli (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany) and Thomas Krug (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for the manufacture of ethyleneamines and ethanolamines, comprising the steps of (i) converting a glycolald...