ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,005, issued on March 31, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).
"Process and reactor for producing phosgene" was invented by Gerhard Olbert (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Jens Ferbitz (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Kai Thiele (Antwerp, Belgium), Peter Van Den Abeel (Antwerp, Belgium), Koenraad Vandewalle (Antwerp, Belgium), Jim Brandts (De Meern, Netherlands) and Torsten Mattke (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a process for producing phosgene by gas-phase reaction of carbon monoxide and chlorine in the presence of a catalyst in a reactor which comprises ...