ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,990, issued on July 21, was assigned to Linde GmbH (Pullach, Germany) and BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany).

"Device for conducting a chemical reaction in a process fluid in a production facility" was invented by Martin Hofstatter (Munich), Clara Delhomme-Neudecker (Munich), Heinz Posselt (Bad Aibling, Germany), Niklas Fleischmann (Munich), Kiara Aenne Kochendorfer (Mannheim, Germany), Eric Jenne (Hassloch, Germany), Andrey Shustov (Ludwigshafen Am Rhein, Germany), Werner Josef Still (Grustadt, Germany) and Torsten Stark (Mannheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for carrying out a chemical reaction in a process flu...