Patents Assigned to BASF
  • Patent number: 12187914
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing a thin film on a substrate in which a first precursor composition (FPC) and a second precursor composition (SPC) are combined, a thin layer of the combined first precursor composition (FPC) and second precursor composition (SPC) is formed on a substrate and the thin layer is cured, an article comprising said thin layer, a composition comprising said first precursor composition (FPC) and said second precursor composition (SPC), a kit-of-parts comprising said first precursor composition (FPC) and said second precursor composition (SPC) in two vessels and the use of said composition or kit-of-parts for preparing a thin film on a substrate and for preparing an optical or electrical coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Mi Zhou, Neil Gregory Pschirer, Hsin Tsao Tang, Ying Jung Chen, Sami Pirinen, Ari Karkkainen, Milja Hannu-Kuure, Oskari Maekimartti
  • Patent number: 12187692
    Abstract: A process for producing ethylene oxide by gas-phase oxidation of ethylene, comprising: directing a feed comprising gaseous ethylene and gaseous oxygen through a packing of individual shaped catalyst bodies, under conditions conducive to obtain a reaction mixture containing at least 2.7 vol.-% of ethylene oxide, wherein each shaped catalyst body comprises silver deposited on a refractory support and is characterized by a content of at least 20 wt.-% of silver, relative to the total weight of the shaped catalyst body; a BET surface area in the range of 1.6 to 3.0 m2/g; a first face side surface, a second face side surface and a circumferential surface with a plurality of passageways extending from the first face side surface to the second face side surface; and a uniform multilobed cross-section; and a longest direct diffusion pathway d, with 2d being in the range of 0.7 to 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Andrey Karpov, Marco Oskar Kennema, Nicolas Duyckaerts, Christian Walsdorff, Christian Bartosch, Juergen Zuehlke, Miguel Angel Romero Valle
  • Publication number: 20250003099
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are processes comprising electrolyzing an aqueous solution comprising lithium, wherein the aqueous solution has a pH less than 0.5. Also disclosed are processes comprising electrolyzing a first aqueous solution comprising lithium to obtain a second aqueous solution comprising lithium, and an acidic aqueous solution having a pH less than 0.5, adjusting the pH of the second aqueous solution with the acidic aqueous solution to obtain a third aqueous solution comprising lithium having a pH less than 0.5, and electrolyzing the third aqueous solution comprising lithium. Additionally disclosed are, processes comprising stripping a liquid medium comprising lithium with an acidic aqueous solution to obtain an aqueous solution comprising lithium, and electrolyzing the aqueous solution comprising lithium. Further disclosed are processes for preparing a liquid medium comprising lithium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Nils-Olof Joachim Born, Arnd Garsuch, Kerstin Schierle-Arndt, Wolfram Wilk, Sigmar Braeuninger, Regina Vogelsang, Bastian Opitz, Daniel Malko, Vincent Smith
  • Patent number: 12180326
    Abstract: Described herein is a polyurethane foam produced in a “one shot process” that has low density, is semi-hard, and displays a high rebound value all while providing superior split tear performance. The polyurethane foam can be used in a “one shot process” to produce a shoe sole, a mid-sole or an insole for a shoe. The shoe sole may be used for forming an outer sole of a sandal type shoe, a midsole of an athletic type shoe, or an insole for insertion into any type of shoe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Cai An Wang, Chang Xi Li, Ren Zheng Zhang
  • Patent number: 12181341
    Abstract: Described herein is a computer-implemented method for providing a match metric for matching and adjusting color of a target coating and at least one sample coating, the method including at least the steps of: obtaining, via at least one communications interface, spectral curve(s) of the target coating and spectral curves of the sample coating determined at at least one gloss geometry; producing normalized first derivative values of the normalized spectral curves of the target coating and of the sample coating; producing difference values between the normalized first derivative values of the target coating and of the sample coating; producing a first match metric for the target coating and the sample coating based at least on the difference values produced for the at least one gloss geometry; and producing the match metric based on the first match metric. Also described herein is a respective system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: BASF COATINGS GMBH
    Inventor: Guido Bischoff
  • Patent number: 12180561
    Abstract: Provided are processes for extracting nickel and lithium from a Ni2+/Li+ solution. The process for extracting nickel and lithium includes providing a Ni2+/Li+ solution comprising an amount of lithium and an amount of nickel, treating the Ni2+/Li+ solution with an alkaline agent to adjust the pH of the Ni2+/Li+ solution to between about 1.0 to about 10.0, and treating the Ni2+/Li+ solution with a nickel selective extractant, the nickel selective extractant suitable to extract nickel from the Ni2+/Li+ solution at said pH to thereby produce a Li+ solution with less than 1000 parts per million Ni2+. Once complete, the process provides for recoverable nickel and/or lithium that may be recycled into batteries or sold for other uses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: William C. Mays, Jack Bender, Benjamin Reichman, Diana Wong, Tinoush Dinn, Martin L. Panchula, Dieter G. Von Deak
  • Patent number: 12180413
    Abstract: The present invention describes novel coolant concentrates and the production and use thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Harald Dietl, Uwe Nitzschke, Mario Sandor, Ruediger Schmitz
  • Patent number: 12180568
    Abstract: The invention is related to a soft-magnetic powder comprising coated particles, the coated particles comprising a core and a shell, the core having an average particle size D50 in a range from 0.1 ?m to 100 ?m and comprising iron, wherein the shell has a thickness of not more than 20 nm and comprises at least two solid oxides and wherein the shell comprises at least three layers and the shell comprises more than one layers of a first solid oxide and at least one layer of a second solid oxide, wherein the more than one layers of the first solid oxide and the at least one layer of the second solid oxide are arranged in an alternating manner. The invention is further related to a process for the production of the soft-magnetic powder, a use of the soft-magnetic powder and an electronic component comprising the soft-magnetic powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Robert Prunchak, Jose A. Jimenez, Rene Koenig, Rastko Joksimovic
  • Patent number: 12180341
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the flotation of non-sulfidic minerals and ores. Particularly the present invention relates to a collector for the beneficiation of non-sulfidic minerals and ores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Alexej Michailovski, Anna Maria Mueller-Cristadoro, Maria Escoda Maregenat
  • Patent number: 12183916
    Abstract: When a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery in which a positive electrode active material comprising a layered lithium-composite oxide is used for a positive electrode is subjected to charge/discharge under a prescribed condition, in a graph showing the relationship between voltage “V” with discharge during 5th cycle and value dQ/dV from differentiation of battery capacity “Q” with discharge during 5th cycle by voltage “V”, peak intensity ratio “r” represented by the equation: r=|Ic|/(|Ia|+|Ib|+|Ic|) satisfies 0<r?0.25, in which |Ia| is absolute value dQ/dV for a peak top within a range of more than 3.9V to 4.4V or less, |Ib| is absolute value dQ/dV for a peak top within a range of more than 3.5V to 3.9V or less, and |Ic| is absolute value dQ/dV for a peak top within a range of 2.0V or more to 3.5V or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignees: BASF TODA BATTERY MATERIALS LLC, GS YUASA INTERNATIONAL LTD.
    Inventors: Taisei Inoue, Daisuke Nishikawa, Manabu Yamamoto, Katsuya Inoue
  • Patent number: 12179186
    Abstract: The presently claimed invention provides a layered catalytic article comprising a first layer comprising a nickel component and a ceria component, wherein the amount of the nickel component is 1.0 to 50 wt. %, calculated as nickel oxide, based on the total weight of the first layer, and wherein the first layer is essentially free of copper; a second layer comprising a platinum group metal component, an oxygen storage component, and an alumina component, wherein the platinum group metal component comprises platinum, rhodium, palladium, or any combination thereof, and wherein the amount of the platinum group metal component is 0.0 to 5 wt. %, based on the total weight of the second layer; and a substrate. The presently claimed invention also provides a process for preparing the layered catalytic article. It further provides an exhaust system for internal combustion engines comprising a layered catalytic article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: BASF Mobile Emissions Catalysts LLC
    Inventors: Xiaolai Zheng, Michel Deeba, Dinh Dang
  • Publication number: 20240424715
    Abstract: A component is made of at least two segments connected to one another in a movable manner via one or more connecting elements. The component is made of a casting or parts of a casting which is cast in the casting space of a casting mold. The component is longer than the maximum extent of that casting space when the component is aligned via the movable connecting element(s), such that it attains its maximum length L along an axis A. A process for producing the component is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicant: BASF Polyurethanes GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Matthias Heikaus, Alexander Richter
  • Publication number: 20240423148
    Abstract: Methods are provided for hybrid seed production using 3-phyletic crosses between female, maintainer and male, particularly restorer lines, wherein the trait is introduced in the female line only at the stage of basic seed production via crossing of the female line with a maintainer line containing the gene or genes encoding the trait in homozygous state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Frank Michiels, Kirk Johnson, Nanyen Chou
  • Patent number: 12174073
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a computer-implemented method, a respective device, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium. The method includes: obtaining color values, texture values and digital images of a target coating, retrieving from a database one or more preliminary matching formulas based on the color and/or texture values obtained for the target coating, determining sparkle points within the respective obtained images and within the respective images associated with the one or more preliminary matching formulas, creating subimages of each sparkle point from the respective images, providing the created subimages to a convolutional neural network, the convolutional neural network being trained to correlate a respective subimage of a respective sparkle point with a pigment and/or pigment class, and determining, based on an output of the neural network, at least one of the one or more preliminary matching formulas as the formula(s) best matching the target coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: BASF COATINGS GMBH
    Inventors: Guido Bischoff, Donald R Baughman, Matthew Leopold, Stuart K Scott
  • Patent number: 12172953
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of acetals from carbon dioxide. The invention also relates to a mixture of phosphorus containing ligands comprising least one polydentate ligand and at least one monodentate ligand. Further, the invention also relates to the use of mixtures comprising at least one polydentate ligand and at least one monodentate ligand in transition metal complexes for the preparation of acetals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignees: BASF SE, Ruprecht-Karis-Universität Heidelberg
    Inventors: Thomas Schaub, Ivana Jevtovikj, A. Stephen K. Hashmi, Kohei Sekine
  • Patent number: 12172956
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for isomerizing a 3-(Z)-unsaturated carboxylic acid of the formula 1-Z or a salt thereof, wherein R2 is C1-C24-alkyl, C2-C24-alkenyl having 1, 2, 3 or more than 3 C—C double bonds, unsubstituted or substituted C5-C12-cycloalkyl, or unsubstituted or substituted aryl; R1 is hydrogen or has one of the definitions specified for R2; with the proviso that R2 has a higher priority than R1 in accordance with IUPAC; to give a 3-(E)-unsaturated carboxylic acid of the formula I-E or a salt thereof, wherein the isomerization of the compound of the formula 1-Z is effected in the presence of an anhydride of an organic acid and a base or in the presence of a ketene of formula CR11R12C(0), wherein R11 and R12 are as defined in the claims and in the specification and a base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Mathias Schelwies, Wolfgang Siegel, Rocco Paciello, Andreas Keller
  • Patent number: 12173179
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an aqueous coating composition including an anionically stabilized binder, a color pigment, a polycarboxylic acid, and optionally a solvent. Further disclosed is a method for producing an aqueous coating composition by adding a solution of polycarboxylic acid in a solvent to a coating composition including an anionically stabilized binder and color pigment. Additionally disclosed is a method for producing a multicoat paint system by producing a basecoat layer or at least two directly consecutive basecoat layers directly on a substrate optionally coated with a first coating layer, producing a clearcoat layer directly on the basecoat layer or the topmost basecoat layer, and jointly curing the basecoat layer(s) and the clearcoat layer. At least one of the basecoat materials includes the aqueous coating composition disclosed herein and/or an aqueous coating prepared by the disclosed method. A multicoat paint system obtainable by the method is additionally disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: BASF COATINGS GMBH
    Inventors: Bernhard Steinmetz, Peggy Jankowski, Norbert Loew, Klaus Eikelmann, Katrin Deller, Andreas Poppe, Dominik Stoll
  • Patent number: 12172958
    Abstract: A process to produce N-vinyl compounds by homogeneous catalysis can be performed. Acetylene is reacted with a compound having at least one nitrogen bearing a substitutable hydrogen residue in a liquid phase in the presence of at least one phosphine as a catalyst to produce the compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Thomas Schaub, Pavel Tuzina, Frank Bienewald, Maximilian Menche, Nikolai Amadeus Sitte, A. Stephen K. Hashmi
  • Patent number: 12171862
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a personal washing composition comprising a detersive surfactant, at least one rheology modifying polymer, at least one cationic conditioning polymer, at least one benefit agent, and an anionic polymer of polysulfonic acid. The composition is a sulfate-free or substantial sulfate-free personal washing composition. The present invention further relates to a method of achieving improved conditioning benefits and/or improved deposition of benefit agents onto hair and/or skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Ben Chuan Zhu, Lan Liao, Zhen Yuan Qu
  • Patent number: 12173152
    Abstract: A thermoplastic polyamide can be obtained through the reaction of at least the components (i), (ii), and (iii), where a catalyst having a Lewis base component is used in the reaction. Component (i) is a composition containing a polymeric compound having two carboxylic acid moieties; component (ii) is a dicarboxylic acid composition containing at least one dicarboxylic acid; and component (iii) is a diisocyanate composition containing at least one diisocyanate. A process can be used for producing the thermoplastic polyamide and a method for the use thereof. A tandem reactive extruder can be used for the reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Frank Prissok, Florian Puch, Elmar Poeselt