US Patent Issued to Dow Global Technologies on Aug. 11 for "Processes for producing carboxylic acids or alkyl esters" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,674, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Dow Global Technologies LLC (Midland, Mich.).

"Processes for producing carboxylic acids or alkyl esters" was invented by Alexey Kirilin (Terneuzen, Netherlands), Beata A. Kilos (Midland, Mich.), Wen-Sheng Lee (Midland, Mich.) and David G. Barton (Midland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates generally to gas phase processes for producing carboxylic acids or alkyl esters. In one embodiment, a gas phase process for producing a carboxylic acid or an alkyl ester comprises (a) providing a catalyst support comprising deposits of cobalt thiocyanate on at least a portion o...