US Patent Issued to Evonik Operations on March 17 for "Electrochemical oxidation of fatty acids and fatty acid esters to form monocarboxylic acids and alpha-omega-dicarboxylic acids" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,688, issued on March 17, was assigned to Evonik Operations GmbH (Essen, Germany).

"Electrochemical oxidation of fatty acids and fatty acid esters to form monocarboxylic acids and alpha-omega-dicarboxylic acids" was invented by Frank Weinelt (Billerbeck, Germany), Franz-Erich Baumann (Duelmen, Germany), Siegfried R. Waldvogel (Gau-Algesheim, Germany), Kamil Hofman (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) and Joachim Nikl (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process produces aliphatic monocarboxylic acids and Alpha,Omega-dicarboxylic acids or Alpha,Omega-dicarboxylic monoesters by electrochemical oxidation of unsubstituted...