US Patent Issued to DEASYL, ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE DE CHIMIE DE PARIS, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE on March 17 for "Method for manufacturing (2,2-dimethyl-1,3-dioxolan-4-yl)methanol" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,220, issued on March 17, was assigned to DEASYL SA (Plan-les-Ouates, Switzerland), ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE DE CHIMIE DE PARIS (Paris) and CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris).

"Method for manufacturing (2,2-dimethyl-1,3-dioxolan-4-yl)methanol" was invented by Christophe Len (Villers sur Coudun, France), Mohamad Khodadadi (Paris), Julien Thiel (Arbusigny, France) and Francois Lacoste (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing solketal ((2,2-Dimethyl-1,3-dioxolan-4-yl)methanol) includes: (1) milling starting reagents, including at least: glycerol, a catalyst selected from a ...