ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,655,093, issued on June 16, was assigned to NOURYON CHEMICALS INTERNATIONAL B.V. (Arnhem, Netherlands).

"Manufacture of nitrile compounds" was invented by Eike Nicolas Kantzer (Uddevalla, Sweden), Alexey Borisovich Zaitsev (Deventer, Netherlands), Tjerk Oedse Boonstra (Duiven, Netherlands), Ina Ehlers (Stenungsund, Sweden), Rolf Krister Edvinsson (Partille, Sweden), Martin Heus (Arnhem, Netherlands), Antoon Jacob Berend Ten Kate (Arnhem, Netherlands) and Michiel Jozef Thomas Raaijmakers (Deventer, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for manufacturing a nitrile compound through chain elongation of an alkylene amine compou...