ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,964, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Linde GmbH (Pullach, Germany) and BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany).

"Reactor for carrying out a chemical reaction" was invented by Martin Hofstatter (Munich), Clara Delhomme-Neudecker (Munich), Heinz Posselt (Bad Aibling, Germany) and Mathieu Zellhuber (Martinsried, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reactor for carrying out a chemical reaction includes a reactor wall and at least one group of M reaction tubes, each of which has an electrically heatable heating section that extends between a first and a second removal region. Each heating section has a respective feed region in a region wh...