US Patent Issued to BASF on Sept. 22 for "Mixtures for improving the stability of additive packages" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,128, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Mixtures for improving the stability of additive packages" was invented by Jochen Mezger (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Harald Boehnke (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Tarik Atilgan (Ludwigshafen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mixtures of certain olefin-carboxylic acid copolymers (A) with at least one additive with detergent action, preferably at least one quaternary nitrogen compound (B), and optionally further fuel additives, are useful for improving the stability of additive packages for fuels, especially fuel oils and gasoline fuels."

The patent w...