US Patent Issued to BASF on Oct. 27 for "Tubular casing (S) for food, containing at least one copolyamide composed of at least one lactam, a dicarboxylic acid and 1,5-diamino-3-oxapentane" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,982, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Tubular casing (S) for food, containing at least one copolyamide composed of at least one lactam, a dicarboxylic acid and 1,5-diamino-3-oxapentane" was invented by Rolf Minkwitz (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany) and Florian Richter (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a tubular casing (S) for food produced by polymerizing a lactam (A) and a monomer mixture (M), where the monomer mixture (M) comprises 1,5-diamino-3-oxapentane. The present invention further relates to the use of the tubular casing...