US Patent Issued to INV Nylon Chemicals Americas on Feb. 17 for "Production of dinitriles" (Texas, Pennsylvania, Kansas, Delaware Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,741, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to INV Nylon Chemicals Americas LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Production of dinitriles" was invented by Benjamin David Herzog (Wichita, Kan.), Milind V. Kantak (Wilmington, Del.), Gregory S. Kirby (Avondale, Pa.) and William J. Tenn III (Beaumont, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for producing dinitrile comprises supplying a C6 organic compound, an oxidizing agent, ammonia and a diluent to a reaction zone to produce a reaction mixture and contacting the reaction mixture in the reaction zone with a heterogeneous catalyst at a temperature from 50 to 200deg C. to convert at least a portion o...