US Patent Issued to MOMENTIVE PERFORMANCE MATERIALS on April 14 for "Low temperature process for the safe conversion of the siemens process side-product mixture to chloromonosilanes" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,638, issued on April 14, was assigned to MOMENTIVE PERFORMANCE MATERIALS INC. (Waterford, N.Y.).

"Low temperature process for the safe conversion of the siemens process side-product mixture to chloromonosilanes" was invented by Norbert Auner (Glashutten, Germany) and Alexander Sturm (Mainz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a process for the production of monosilanes of formula H4-nSiCln with n being 2, 3 or 4 comprising the step of subjecting a starting material composition comprising one or more disilanes with formula HxSi2Cl6-x containing at least one Si-H bond and optionally further silanes, in part...