ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,660, issued on June 9, was assigned to Solstice Advanced Materials US Inc. (Parsippany, N.J.).

"Integrated processes for producing bis(fluorosulfonyl) imide" was invented by Matthew H. Luly (Hamburg, N.Y.), Bernard E. Pointner (Buffalo, N.Y.) and Brian Leone (Morris Plains, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for producing bis(fluorosulfonyl) imide includes providing a solution comprising fluorosulfonic acid and urea, the solution maintained at a solution temperature from about 0deg C. to about 70deg C.; reacting the solution in the presence of a reaction medium at a reaction temperature from 80deg C. to about 170deg C. to p...