Patents Assigned to BASF
  • Patent number: 9023908
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for adsorbing and/or absorbing oil, by bringing oil into contact with a polyurethane sponge with excellent mechanical properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Nils Mohmeyer, Ralf Fritz, Bernd Bruchmann, Anna Cristadoro, Marcus Leberfinger, Antje van der Net
  • Patent number: 9024114
    Abstract: Compositions and methods related to transgenic AHAS-inhibiting herbicide resistant soybean plants are provided. Event 127 soybean plants having a mutated AHAS coding sequence which imparts tolerance to an AHAS-inhibiting herbicide are provided. The event 127 soybean plants having the event 127 nucleic acid molecule at the identified chromosomal location may comprise genomic/transgene junctions having at least the nucleic acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 5 and/or 6. The characterization of the genomic insertion site of the event 127 provides for an enhanced breeding efficiency and enables the use of molecular markers to track the transgene insert in the breeding populations and progeny thereof. Various methods and compositions for the identification, detection, and use of the event 127 soybean plants are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignees: Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuaria—Embrapa, BASF Agrochemical Products B.V.
    Inventors: Dale Carlson, Francisco Jose Lima Aragao, Carlos Alberto Arrabal Arias, Luiz Louzano, Bruce M. Luzzi, Tim Malefyt, Elibio Leopoldo Rech Filho, Siyuan Tan, Adolfo Ulbrich, Tadashi Yotsumoto, Ute Linemann
  • Patent number: 9024050
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a stable mixture comprising surface-modified particles which are obtained by reacting metal oxide or semimetal oxide particles with at least one compound selected from among silicon-comprising compounds bearing at least one metaloxy radical and optionally further alkoxy and/or hydroxy radical(s) and at least one solvent, at least one surface-active substance or a mixture thereof, a process for producing the mixture, the use of these particles in systems in which they are brought into contact with at least one solvent, where the mass ratio of solvent to modified particle is greater than 500, and also the use of these particles in agglomeration-deagglomeration cycles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignees: BASF SE, BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Stephan Deuerlein, Imme Domke, Alexej Michailovski, Reinhold Rieger, Piyada Charoensirisomboon, David F. Blackwood, Christian Eichholz, Robert Bayer, Dennis Loesch, Igor Shishkov
  • Patent number: 9023523
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of compounds of general formula (I) Lia-bMb1Fe1-cMc2Pd-eMe3Ox, wherein Fe has the oxidation state +2 and M1, M2, M3, a, b, c, d, e and x are: M1: Na, K, Rb and/or Cs, M2: Mn, Mg, Al, Ca, Ti, Co, Ni, Cr, V, M3: Si, S, F a: 0.8-1.9, b: 0-0.3, c: 0-0.9, d: 0.8-1.9, e: 0-0.5, x: 1.0-8, depending on the amount and oxidation state of Li, M1, M2, P, M3, wherein compounds of general formula (I) are neutrally charged, comprising the following steps (A) providing a mixture comprising at least one lithium-comprising compound, at least one iron-comprising compound, in which iron has the oxidation state 0, and at least one M1-comprising compound, if present, and/or at least one M2-comprising compound, if present, and/or least one M3-comprising compound, if present, and at least one compound comprising at least one phosphorous atom in oxidation state +5, and (B) heating the mixture obtained in step (A) at a temperature of 100 to 500° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Kirill Bramnik, Hartmut Hibst, Jordan Keith Lampert
  • Patent number: 9023382
    Abstract: A medicament carrier composition includes a medicament and a polymer component including a polyvinylpyrrolidone having a weight average molecular weight of at least 700,000 g/mol. The medicament carrier composition has a viscosity of from 500 to 5,000 cps at 250 C, is substantially free of cellulose, and includes an auxiliary polymer. The medicament carrier composition is used to form a film that is also substantially free of cellulose. The film has a consistent thickness and size, and an increased flexibility and increased moisture resistance due to the polyvinylpyrrolidone. The medicament carrier composition is also used in a method of forming the film. The method includes the steps of providing the medicament and the polymer component. The method also includes the step of combining the polymer component and the medicament to form the medicament carrier composition. The method further includes the step of drying the medicament carrier composition to form the film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Shaukat Ali, Anisul Quadir
  • Patent number: 9023753
    Abstract: A process for the production of propylene, the process including: contacting ethylene and a hydrocarbon stream comprising 1-butene and 2-butene with a bifunctional isomerization-metathesis catalyst to concurrently isomerizes 1-butene to 2-butene and to form a metathesis product comprising propylene; wherein the bifunctional isomerization-metathesis catalyst comprises: a catalyst compound may include at least one element selected from tungsten, tantalum, niobium, molybdenum, nickel, palladium, osmium, iridium, rhodium, vanadium, ruthenium, and rhenium for providing metathesis activity on a support comprising at least one element from Group IA, IIA, IIB, and IIIA of the Periodic Table of the Elements; wherein an exposed surface area of the support provides both isomerization activity for the isomerization of 1-butene to 2-butene; and reactive sites for the adsorption of catalyst compound poisons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignees: Lummus Technology Inc., BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Bala Ramachandran, Sukwon Choi, Robert J. Gartside, Shane Kleindienst, Wolfgang Ruettinger, Saeed Alerasool
  • Patent number: 9023632
    Abstract: The present invention relates to bacterial strains, capable of utilizing glycerol as a carbon source for the fermentative production of succinic acid, wherein said strains are genetically modified so that they comprise a deregulation of their endogenous pyruvate-formate-lyase enzyme activity, as well as to methods of producing organic acids, in particular succinic acid, by making use of such microorganism. The present invention also relates to the downstream processing of the produced organic acids by cation exchange chromatography.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Hartwig Schröder, Stefan Haefner, Gregory Von Abendroth, Rajan Hollmann, Aline Raddatz, Hansgeorg Ernst, Hans Gurski
  • Publication number: 20150118845
    Abstract: A chemical-mechanical polishing (“CMP”) composition (P) comprising (A) inorganic particles, organic particles, or a mixture or composite thereof, (B) at least one type of A/-heterocyclic compound as corrosion inhibitor, (C) at least one type of a further corrosion inhibitor selected from the group consisting of: (C1) an acetylene alcohol, and (C2) a salt or an adduct of (C2a) an amine, and (C2b) a carboxylic acid comprising an amide moiety, (D) at least one type of an oxidizing agent, (E) at least one type of a complexing agent, and (F) an aqueous medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2012
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventor: Ning Gao
  • Publication number: 20150113864
    Abstract: The use of a complex ester obtainable by esterification reaction between aliphatic linear or branched C2- to C12-dicarboxylic acids, aliphatic linear or branched polyhydroxy alcohols with 3 to 6 hydroxyl groups, and, as chain stopping agents, aliphatic linear or branched C1- to C30-monocarboxylic acids or aliphatic linear or branched monobasic C1- to C30-alcohols, as an additive in a fuel for reducing fuel consumption in the operation of an internal combustion engine with this fuel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Marc Walter, Dirk Rettemeyer, Markus Hansch, Ludwig Voelkel, Bjoern Thomas Hahn, Muriel Ecormier, Thomas Hayden
  • Publication number: 20150113859
    Abstract: The use of a polyalkylene glycol of formula HO—(A—O)p—(CH2CH2—O)m—(A—O)q—H wherein A is a C3- to C20-alkylene group or a mixture of such alkylene groups, m is a number of from 2 to 100 and p and q are each numbers of from 1 to 100, as an additive in a fuel for reducing fuel consumption in the operation of an internal combustion engine with this fuel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Ludwig VOELKEL, Markus HANSCH, Thomas HAYDEN, Marc WALTER, Nawid KASHANI-SHIRAZI, Thomas WEISS
  • Publication number: 20150114268
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing calcium sulphate dihydrate by reacting a water-soluble calcium compound with a water-soluble sulphate compound in the presence of water and a polymer containing acid groups, wherein the polymer containing acid groups comprises specific polyether groups. Additionally disclosed are calcium sulphate dihydrate producible by the process according to the invention, and the use thereof for production of gypsum plasterboard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: BASF Construction Solutions GmbH
    Inventors: Niklas Loges, Uwe Gehrig, Michael Schinabeck, Frank Dierschke, Michael Brau, Luc Nicoleau
  • Publication number: 20150119531
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing water-absorbing polymer particles having an improved profile of properties, comprising thermal surface postcrosslinking in the presence of a salt of a polyvalent metal cation and a complexing anion and subsequent aftertreatment, the aftertreatment comprising coating with a salt of a polyvalent metal cation and a non-complexing anion, and remoisturization with further drying.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Christophe Bauduin, Thomas Daniel, Asif Karim
  • Publication number: 20150118560
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing electrode materials, which comprises the following steps: (a) mixing the following with one another: (A) at least one phosphorus compound, (B) at least one lithium compound, (C) at least one carbon source, (D1) at least one water-soluble iron compound in which Fe is present in the +2 or +3 oxidation state, (D2) at least one iron source which is different than (D1) and is water-insoluble and in which Fe is present in the zero, +2 or +3 oxidation state, (b) thermally treating the mixture obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Bastian Ewald, Ivana Krkljus, Jordan Keith Lampert
  • Publication number: 20150119572
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for manufacturing aryloxyacetamides of formula (I), by reacting haloacetamides of formula (II) with a phenol of formula (III); wherein the variables are defined according to the description, and aryloxyacetamides of formula (I).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Maximilian Dochnahl, Michael Rack, Michael Keil, Bernd Wolf, Uwe Josef Vogelbacher, Joachim Gebhardt, Timo Frassetto, Volker Maywald
  • Publication number: 20150113867
    Abstract: The use of an alkoxylated polytetrahydrofurane of formula wherein m, m?, n, n?, p, p? and k are integers in the range of ?1, R1 denotes an unsubstituted linear or branched alkyl radical, R2 denotes —CH2—CH3, and R3 denotes a hydrogen atom or —CH3, as an additive in a fuel for reducing fuel consumption in the operation of an internal combustion engine with this fuel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Ludwig VOELKEL, Markus Hansch, Thomas Hayden, Marc Walter, Nawid Kashani-Shirazi, Thomas Weiss
  • Patent number: 9017819
    Abstract: The disclosed method comprises applying a transparent coating composition to a plastics substrate, the composition comprising 30% to 60% by weight of a nanoparticles (B), 15% to 40% by weight, of urethane (meth)acrylates (A1) having 3 to 5 (meth)/acrylate groups per molecule, 0% to less than 10% by weight of urethane (meth)acrylates (A2) having more than 5 (meth)/acrylate groups per molecule, 0% to less than 10% by weight of urethane (meth)acrylates (A3) having less than 3 (meth)/acrylate groups per molecule, 55% to 80% by weight of compounds (C1) having 4 (meth)/acrylate groups per molecule, 0% to 15% by weight of compounds (C2) having 2 (meth)/acrylate groups per molecule, and 0% to 15% by weight of compounds (C3) having 3 (meth)/acrylate groups per molecule, the sum of the weight fractions of film-forming components (A1), (A2), (A3), (C1), (C2), and (C3) being in each case 100% by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: BASF Coatings GmbH
    Inventors: Jan Bernd Kues, Andre Brosseit, Karin Homann, Stefanie Schroeder
  • Patent number: 9016211
    Abstract: Disclosed are wheelsets having a cured coating produced from the application and curing of a composition comprising a component A comprising a1) 18 to 30% by weight of a polyether polyol with a hydroxy number of 300 to 500 mg KOH/g, a2) 38 to 60% by weight of castor oil, a3) 0.6 to 2.0% by weight of at least one di- or polyamine, a4) 5.6 to 9.0% by weight of trizinc bis(orthophosphate), a5) 2.2 to 3.5% by weight of zinc oxide and/or zinc phosphate, a6) 0.05 to 0.4% by weight of a catalyst which catalyzes urethane formation, where the percentage by weight data are based on the total mass of the coating composition, and a component B comprising one or more di- and/or polyisocyanates in an amount corresponding to a molar ratio of 0.6:1 to 1.2:1 of the isocyanate groups to the hydroxy groups of the constituents a1) and a2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: BASF Coatings GmbH
    Inventors: Jens Klauer, Egon Warntjes, Klaus Buck, Eugen Hoegele, Achim Gast
  • Patent number: 9018397
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of the formula I wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1, and their use as organic semiconductor in organic devices, like diodes, organic field effect transistors and/or a solar cells. The compounds of the formula I have excellent solubility in organic solvents. High efficiency of energy conversion, excellent field-effect mobility, good on/off current ratios and/or excellent stability can be observed, when said compounds are used in semiconductor devices or organic photovoltaic (PV) devices (solar cells).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Zhimin Hao, Beat Schmidhalter, Jean-Luc Budry, Margherita Fontana, Matheiu G. R. Turbiez, Frank Bienewald, Mathias Duggeli, Oliver Frederic Aebischer, Pascal Hayoz, Marta Fondrodona Turon
  • Patent number: 9018318
    Abstract: A macrocycle based on ?-diketimines, a process for preparing the inventive macrocycle, an uncharged macrocyclic dimetallic complex based on the inventive macrocycle, and a process for preparing the uncharged macrocyclic dimetallic complex, the use of the uncharged macrocyclic dimetallic complex as a polymerization catalyst in the polymerization of carbon dioxide with one or more epoxides, a process for preparing polycarbonates by reacting carbon dioxide with one or more epoxides in the presence of the inventive uncharged macrocyclic dimetallic complex, and a polycarbonate prepared by the process according to the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE Corporation
    Inventors: Peter Deglmann, Anna Katharina Brym, Bernhard Rieger, Maximilian Lehenmeier, Stephan Klaus
  • Patent number: 9017626
    Abstract: Described are SCR catalyst systems comprising a first SCR catalyst composition and a second SCR catalyst composition arranged in the system, the first SCR catalyst composition promoting higher N2 formation and lower N2O formation than the second SCR catalyst composition, and the second SCR catalyst composition having a different composition than the first SCR catalyst composition, the second SCR catalyst composition promoting lower N2 formation and higher N2O formation than the first SCR catalyst composition. The SCR catalyst systems are useful in methods and systems to catalyze the reduction of nitrogen oxides in the presence of a reductant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Weiyong Tang, Jaya L. Mohanan