Patents Assigned to BASF SE
  • Patent number: 12281246
    Abstract: Described herein is a two-component polyurethane foam adhesive, a process for preparing the same and an article made therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Thomas Chase, Todd W. Wishneski, Matthew Freeman, Marcus J. Hunter, Joshua James Belill
  • Patent number: 12279611
    Abstract: Described herein is a method for controlling insects where a composition including an insecticide and a polymer are applied to soil, where the polymer is formed from an initiator and a plurality of C2 to C6 alkylene oxide units, and where the initiator is an aliphatic polyol with at least three hydroxyl groups. Also described herein is a composition including an insecticide and a polymer, where the polymer is formed from an initiator and a plurality of C2 to C6 alkylene oxide units, and where the initiator is an aliphatic polyol with at least three hydroxyl groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Wen Xu, James W. Austin, Michael Krapp
  • Patent number: 12274770
    Abstract: This invention relates to stabilizer concentrates which improve the stability of mono- and/or diesters of mono- and/or diethylene glycol wax dispersions in personal care compositions, wherein the stabilizer concentrates comprising hydrogenated castor oil and betaines and are free of anionic surfactants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Claus Nieendick, Werner Mauer, Kathrin Tapp, Sybille Cornelsen
  • Patent number: 12275808
    Abstract: A process for producing superabsorbent particles by polymerizing a monomer solution or suspension, comprising drying of the resultant aqueous polymer gel in an air circulation belt dryer, grinding, classifying, and optionally thermal surface postcrosslinking, wherein the aqueous polymer gel is introduced into the air circulation belt dryer by means of an oscillating conveyor belt and that guide devices are located at the edges of the conveyor belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Rene Callot, Karl Possemiers, Ruediger Funk, Marco Krueger, Matthias Weismantel, Juergen Schroeder
  • Patent number: 12275919
    Abstract: Process making a powder or granule containing (A) at least one chelating agent selected from alkali metal salts of methyl glycine diacetic acid (MGDA) and of glutamic acid diacetate (GLDA) and of iminodisuccinic acid (IDS), (B) at least one alkali metal silicate, and (C) at least one (co)polymer containing carboxylic acid group, partially neutralized with alkali, in a weight ratio of (A):[(B)+(C)] of from 20:1 up to 100:1, wherein said powder or granule contains at least 75% by weight of chelating agent (A), said process comprising the steps of (a) mixing the at least one chelating agent (A) and the at least one alkali metal silicate (B) and the at least one (co)polymer (C) in the presence of water, (b) removing most of said water by spray-drying or spray granulation using a gas with an inlet temperature of at least 125° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Frank Jaekel, Michael Klemens Mueller, Astrid Schmidt
  • Patent number: 12275019
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a concentrate enriched in iron mineral content from an ore, which contains an iron mineral and silicate, by reverse flotation, which method comprises the step of (c) adding a compound of formula I wherein R1 is C9-C22 alkyl or alkenyl, which is linear or branched, R2 is H, C1-C4 alkyl, which is linear or branched, R3 is —X—NH2, H or C1-C4 alkyl, which is linear or branched, and X is C2-C4 alkylene, which is linear or branched, or a salt of a protonated compound of formula I and an anion, to a prepared aqueous pulp of the ore and optionally one or more flotation auxiliaries to obtain an aqueous mixture. Furthermore, a method for manufacturing a specific group of compounds of formula I, i.e. compounds of formula 1-X wherein R1 is C9-C15 alkyl, which is linear or branched, R2 is H, R3 is —X—NH2 and X is C2-C4 alkylene, which is linear or branched, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Alexej Michailovski, Alexander Panchenko, Hannes Ferdinand Zipfel, Martin Ernst, Gabriela Budemberg, Stefanov Nedko Drebov, Sylvia von Krog, Tamara Kuelzer, Long Phan
  • Publication number: 20250115703
    Abstract: A process for preparing a carbodiimide includes (i) providing a mixture including one or more isocyanates and a catalytic compound, and (ii) subjecting the mixture obtained in (i) to reaction conditions in a gas atmosphere. The catalytic compound includes a metal and oxygen, wherein the metal is one or more of Mo and W. and at least a portion of the metal in the catalytic compound is bound to oxygen via one or more single bonds, via one or more double bonds, or via one or more single and double bonds. The reaction conditions in the gas atmosphere take place at a temperature in a range of from 45 to 220° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2023
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Frederic Lucas, Tobias Gienau, Stephan Dohmen, Lennart Karl Bernhard Garve, Frank Schaefer
  • Patent number: 12270004
    Abstract: A lubricant composition for a compression-ignition internal combustion engine includes an amine and a detergent selected from metal sulfonates, phenates, salicylates, carboxylates, thiophosphonates, and combinations thereof. The lubricant composition has a TBN of from about 10 to about 100 mg KOH/g when tested according to ASTM D2896. The amine contributes from about 0.1 to about 28% of the TBN of the lubricant composition. Further, a method of lubricating an internal combustion engine with the lubricant composition includes the steps of injecting a fuel and the lubricant composition into a cylinder to form a mixture, and combusting the mixture via compression-ignition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Ryan James Fenton, Roger Kuhlman
  • Patent number: 12269791
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for manufacturing of anhydrous methanesulfonic acid (MSA) and to methanesulfonic acid manufactured by said process and its uses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Frieder Borgmeier, Frank Piepenbreier, Andreas Kempter
  • Patent number: 12269247
    Abstract: A method is described for debonding a bonded article. The bonded article comprises at least two components which are bonded to one another by means of a polyurethane adhesive selected from aqueous polyurethane dispersion adhesives and polyurethane hotmelt adhesives. At least one of the components is a thermoplastic polyurethane. The components are debonded by treatment with an aqueous surfactant composition at elevated temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Ulrike Licht, Oliver Hartz, Lionel Gehringer, Sabine Bociek, Erich Ries, Juergen Ahlers, Stephan Dohmen
  • Patent number: 12269938
    Abstract: An article in the form of a pipe, cable or geomembrane comprising polyethylene or polypropylene, and components A) and B), wherein component A) is a hindered amine light stabilizer containing a triazine residue, component B) is magnesium hydroxide which is present in an amount of 0.01% to 5% by weight relative to the weight of the polyethylene or polypropylene, and the weight ratio of component A) to component B) is 1:50 to 50:1, with the proviso that component B) is not a hydrotalcite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Tania Weyland, Heinz Herbst, Marie Laure Bertet
  • Publication number: 20250109037
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to methods and systems for reacting elemental nickel particles with sulfuric acid and hydrogen peroxide solutions to produce nickel sulfate products, for example, nickel sulfate products suitable for battery materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Sabine Frischhut, Julia Hofinger, Ralf Boehling, Stefan Pichlmair
  • Patent number: 12264355
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing ammonium (meth-) acrylate, aqueous ammonium (meth-) acrylate solutions obtainable by such process, and (meth-) acrylic acid homopolymers or copolymers obtainable by polymerizing such ammonium (meth-) acrylate. The invention furthermore relates to a modular, relocatable bioconversion unit for manufacturing aqueous ammonium (meth-) acrylate solutions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Diego Ghislieri, Peter Oedman, Tobias Joachim Zimmermann, Anna-Corina Schmidt
  • Patent number: 12262716
    Abstract: The present invention relates to herbicidal mixtures and their methods and uses for controlling undesirable vegetation in soybeans, wherein the herbicidal mixtures comprise L-glufosinate and and at least one herbicidal compound II selected from clethodim, cycloxydim, fenoxaprop, fenoxaprop-ethyl, fenoxaprop-P, fenoxaprop-P-ethyl, fluazifop, fluazifop-butyl, fluazifop-P, fluazifop-P-butyl, haloxyfop, haloxyfop-methyl, haloxyfop-P, haloxyfop-P-methyl, propaquizafop, quizalofop, quizalofop-ethyl, quizalofop-tefuryl, quizalofop-P, quizalofop-P-ethyl, quizalofop-P-tefuryl, sethoxydim, chlorimuron, chlorimuron-ethyl, nicosulfuron, oxasulfuron, thifensulfuron, thifensulfuron-methyl, tritosulfuron, imazamox, imazamox ammonium, imazapic, imazapie ammonium, imazapyr, imazapyr isopropylammonium, imazaquin, imazethapyr, imazethapyr ammonium, cloransulam, cloransulam-methyl, diclosulam, flumetsulam, atrazine, metribuzin, linuron, monolinuron, bentazone, bentazone-sodium,acifluorfen, acifluorfen-sodium, carfentrazone, carf
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Christian Harald Winter, Markus Gewehr, Ryan Louis Nielson
  • Patent number: 12262715
    Abstract: The present invention relates to herbicidal mixture comprising L-glufosinate or its salt and at least one protoporphyrinogen-IX oxidase inhibitor. The invention furthermore relates to a method for controlling undesirable vegetation in burndown programs, in industrial vegetation management and forestry, in vegetable and perennial crops and in turf and lawn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Christian Harald Winter, Markus Gewehr, Ryan Louis Nielson
  • Publication number: 20250101188
    Abstract: A method prepares a curable composition based on ground composite material from the recycling of discarded composite elements such as old pipes or rotor blades of wind power plants. The ground composite material allows for the replacement of virgin short glass fibers and fumed silica commonly employed in such compositions used as structural adhesives essentially without any negative impact on the performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Christoph Martin Hanske, Matthaeus Kopczynski, Marion da Silva, Indre Thiel
  • Patent number: 12256739
    Abstract: Herbicidal mixtures comprising L-glufosinate or its salt and at least one protoporphyrinogen-IX oxidase inhibitor The present invention relates to herbicidal mixture comprising L-glufosinate or its salt and at least one protoporphyrinogen-IX oxidase inhibitor. The invention furthermore relates to a method for controlling undesirable vegetation in burndown programs, in industrial vegetation management and forestry, in vegetable and perennial crops and in turf and lawn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Christian Harald Winter, Markus Gewehr, Ryan Louis Nielson
  • Patent number: 12258437
    Abstract: Described herein is a compact polyurethane having a density of ?850 g/l, obtainable by reacting at least the components: i) a polyisocyanate composition; and ii) a polyol composition, including at least one polyether polyol (ii.1) which is obtainable by reacting ii.1.1) a polyol starter with a functionality of 3 to 6 with ii.1.2) propylene oxide and/or butylene oxide, in the presence of a boron-based, fluorine-containing Lewis acid catalyst (ii.1.3), where the polyether polyol (ii.1) has an equivalent molecular weight of 50 to 150 g/mol, and ii.1.4) optionally further auxiliaries and/or additives. Also described herein are a process for producing such a compact polyurethane and compact polyurethanes obtainable by this process. Also described herein is a method of using such a compact polyurethane for the production of a fiber composite. Also described herein are a corresponding fiber composite material and a process for producing such a fiber composite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Andreas Emge, Andre Meyer, Sirus Zarbakhsh
  • Patent number: 12258554
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel isolated bacterial strains, which are members of the genus Paenibacillus, originally isolated from soil and showing antagonistic activity against a broad range of pathogens and being capable of producing antimicrobial metabolites. It was found that the strains Lu16774 and Lu17007 belong to a novel subspecies named Paenibacillus polymyxa ssp. plantarum while the strain Lu17015 belongs to a novel species which is proposed to be Paenibacillus epiphyticus. The present invention also relates to microbial pesticide compositions comprising at least one of such novel bacterial strains, whole culture broth or a cell-free extract or a fraction thereof or at least one metabolite thereof, and/or a mutant of at least one of said novel bacterial strains having all the identifying characteristics of the respective bacterial strain or whole culture broth, cell-free extract, fraction and/or metabolite of the mutant thereof showing antagonistic activity against plant pathogens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Isabella Siepe, Heilke Brueser, Kristin Klappach, Karl-Heinrich Schneider, Petra Sproete, Kerstin Hage, Birgit Blanz, Eckhard Thines, Luis Antelo, Louis Pergaud Sandjo, Till Opatz
  • Patent number: 12251860
    Abstract: A process for producing a molded article involves providing a thin-walled, gas-permeable shell; filling the shell with a foamed pelletized material composed of a polymer; and welding the foamed pelletized material to obtain the molded article. Molded articles are obtainable or obtained by such a process, and can be used as a footwear sole, part of a footwear sole, a mattress, a seat cushion, an underlay, a grip, a protective film, a component in automobile interiors and exteriors, a gymnastics mat, a body protector, a trim element in automobile construction, a sound insulator, a vibration damper, a cushion, a bicycle saddle, a toy, a tire or part of a tire, a covering for a track and field surface, a covering for a sports hall or a pathway, a damping layer or a damping core in a sandwich element, or a packaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Andreas Wonisch, Peter Gutmann, Andreas Wuest, Frank Prissok, Juergen Ahlers