ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,196, issued on May 12, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).
"Feed supply unit" was invented by Jonas Mattern (Schwarzheide, Germany), Johannes Buettner (Schwarzheide, Germany), Ruediger Fritz (Bernsdorf, Germany) and Maximilian Koeller (Schwarzheide, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feed supply unit comprising (a) a feed dosage unit for supplying a viscosity unstable liquid feed to a reactor, (b) a flushing unit for flushing at least a part of the feed dosage unit according to (a) with a flushing medium, and (c) a signal transmission means for transmitting a signal from a monitoring means to a control mean...