US Patent Issued to BASF on May 5 for "Process, reaction mixture and catalyst for the production of phosgene" (Belgian, German, Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,685, issued on May 5, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Process, reaction mixture and catalyst for the production of phosgene" was invented by Gerhard Olbert (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Benjamin Kron (Seattle), Jochen Gauer (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Jens Ferbitz (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Torsten Mattke (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Kai Thiele (Antwerp, Belgium), Peter Van Den Abeel (Antwerp, Belgium), Koenraad Vandewalle (Antwerp, Belgium), Kirill Bramnik (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany) and Jim Brandts (De Meern, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a pr...