Patents Assigned to BASF
  • Publication number: 20140235805
    Abstract: The presently disclosed and claimed inventive concept(s) relates to solid catalyst components comprising titanium, magnesium, halogen and an internal electron donor compound having at least one ester group and at least one alkoxy group, and catalyst systems containing the catalyst solid components, organoaluminum compounds, and organosilicon compounds. The presently disclosed and claimed inventive concept(s) further relates to methods of making the catalyst components and the catalyst systems, and methods of polymerizing or copolymerizing alpha-olefins using the catalyst systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: BASF CORPORATION
    Inventor: Main Chang
  • Publication number: 20140235733
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved process for the preparation of unsaturated fatty acids and to a process for the preparation of triglycerides with an increased content of unsaturated fatty acids. The invention relates to the generation of transgenic microorganism, with an increased content of fatty acids, oils or lipids with ?6 double bonds owing to the expression of a moss ?6-desaturase. The invention furthermore relates to transgenic organisms comprising a ?6-desaturase gene, and to the use of unsaturated fatty acids ort of the triglycerides with an increased content if unsaturated fatty acids prepared in the process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Ernst Heinz, Thomas Girke, Jodi Scheffler, Oswaldo Da Costa e Silva, Hermann Schmidt, Ulrich Zähringer, Ralf Reski
  • Publication number: 20140231773
    Abstract: The present invention relates to carbazolocarbazol-bis(dicarboximides), a method for their preparation and their use as semiconductors, in particular as semiconductors in organic electronics and organic photovoltaics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Sabin-Lucian Suraru, Frank Wuerthner, Thomas Gessner
  • Publication number: 20140235890
    Abstract: Catalysts and methods for their manufacture and use for the dehydrogenation of alcohols are disclosed. The catalysts and methods utilize a highly dispersible alumina, for example, boehmite or pseudoboehmite, to form catalysts that exhibit high dehydrogenation activities. Specifically, the catalysts include Cu that is highly dispersed by reaction of an alumina formed by peptizing of boehmite or pseudoboehmite and precursors of ZrO2, ZnO and CuO.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Rostam Jai Madon, Peter Nagel, Deepak S. Thakur
  • Publication number: 20140235914
    Abstract: Provided are catalyst composites useful for the production of olefins during a metathesis reaction, as well as methods of making and using the same. Certain methods comprise a support comprising at least about 90% by weight silica; and an eggshell layer on the support comprising about 0.25 to about 10 wt. % tungsten in the form of tungsten oxide or tungsten oxide hydrate, based on the total weight of the catalyst composite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2013
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: BASF Corporation
    Inventor: Joseph C. Dellamorte
  • Publication number: 20140234233
    Abstract: Described are associative thickeners based on compounds which comprise at least one hydrophobically modified polyether dendron end group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Holger Türk, Volker Wendel, Anna Cristadoro, Rabie Al-Hellani, Bernd Bruchmann
  • Publication number: 20140237683
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods for the identification and use of introns with gene expression enhancing properties. The teaching of this invention enables the identification of introns causing intron-mediated enhancement (IME) of gene expression. The invention furthermore relates to recombinant expression construct and vectors comprising said IME-introns operably linked with a promoter sequence and a nucleic acid sequence. The present invention also relates to transgenic plants and plant cells transformed with these recombinant expression constructs or vectors, to cultures, parts or propagation material derived there from, and to the use of same for the preparation of foodstuffs, animal feeds, seed, pharmaceuticals or fine chemicals, to improve plant biomass, yield, or provide desirable phenotypes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Hee-Sook Song, Christian Dammann, Marc Morra, Jeffrey A. Brown, Liqun Xing, Hongmei Jia
  • Patent number: 8809059
    Abstract: The present invention disclosed herein provides a method for producing a plant with increased yield as compared to a corresponding wild type plant comprising increasing or generating one or more activities in a plant or a part thereof. The present invention further relates to nucleic acids enhancing or improving one or more traits of a transgenic plant, and cells, progenies, seeds and pollen derived from such plants or parts, as well as methods of making and methods of using such plant cell(s) or plant(s), progenies, seed(s) or pollen. Particularly, said improved trait(s) are manifested in an increased yield, preferably by improving one or more yield-related trait(s), e.g. low temperature tolerance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Oliver Bläsing, Piotr Puzio, Oliver Thimm, Gerhard Ritte, Hardy Schön
  • Patent number: 8809398
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid formulation containing at least one carotenoid, at least one hydrophilic protective colloid and at least one water-miscible alcohol. The formulation according to the invention can be added directly to aqueous or non-aqueous preparations. The invention compositions can be used in animal feed, human food or a dietary supplement and in pharmaceutical and cosmetic preparations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Christian Köpsel, Jesper Feldthusen Jensen
  • Patent number: 8808404
    Abstract: A method for making a lithium battery or lithium ion battery having nitrogen silylated compounds as additives in a nonaqueous electrolytic solution. Batteries using this electrolytic solution have long cycle life and high capacity retention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Wu Xu, Deng Zhongyi, Bolomey Pascal
  • Patent number: 8809588
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing aromatic amines by catalytically hydrogenating the corresponding aromatic nitro compound, which comprises using a copper catalyst with a support comprising SiO2, the SiO2 having been prepared by wet grinding and subsequent spray drying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Lucia Konigsmann, Ekkehard Schwab, Michael Hesse, Christian Schneider, Thomas Heidemann, Celine Liekens, Jutta Bickelhaupt, Dirk Theis
  • Patent number: 8808430
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for purifying a gas mixture comprising dinitrogen monoxide, at least comprising the treatment of a gas mixture G-0 comprising dinitrogen monoxide to obtain a gas mixture G-A, at least comprising the absorption of the gas mixture G-0 in a solvent mixture S-I to obtain an offgas stream and a composition C-A, and the desorption of a gas mixture G-1 from the composition C-A to obtain a solvent mixture S-I?, subsequent condensation of the gas mixture G-A to obtain a liquid composition C-1 comprising dinitrogen monoxide and a gaseous mixture G-K, wherein the gaseous mixture G-K is recycled into the process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Beatrice Röβler-Feigel, Joaquim Henrique Teles, Dieter Baumann
  • Patent number: 8809533
    Abstract: The instant invention pertains to novel bi- or tricyclic sterically hindered alkoxyamines, their precursors, a process for their preparation and their use as light stabilizers for polymers or coatings, as flame retardants, as peroxide substitutes (rheology modifiers) or carbon radical scavengers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Stefan Hauck, Walter Fischer, Kai-Uwe Schoening
  • Patent number: 8808576
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of compounds of general formula (I) Lia-bM1bV2-cM2c(PO4)x??(I) wherein M1, M2, a, b, c and x have the following meanings: M1: Na, K, Rb and/or Cs, M2: Ti, Zr, Nb, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Al, Mg and/or Sc, a: 1.5-4.5, b: 0-0.6, c: 0-1.98 and x: number to equalize the charge of Li and V and M1 and/or M2, if present, wherein a-b is >0, to a compound according to general formula (I) as defined above, to spherical agglomerates and/or particles comprising at least one compound of general formula (I) as defined above, to the use of such a compound for the preparation of a cathode of a lithium ion battery or an electrochemical cell, and to a cathode for a lithium ion battery, comprising at least one compound as defined above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Hartmut Hibst, Brian Roberts, Jordan Keith Lampert, Kirill Bramnik
  • Patent number: 8808979
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to the field of toxicological assessments for risk stratification of chemical compounds. Specifically, it relates to a method for diagnosing the pro-pathological effect of compounds which are inducing liver enzymes. It also relates to a method of determining whether a compound is capable of exhibiting pro-pathological effects on the liver by enzyme induction in a subject and to a method of identifying a drug for treating the pro-pathological effect of liver enzyme induction. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a data collection comprising characteristic values of at least five analytes, a data storage medium comprising said data collection, and a system and a device for diagnosing the pro-pathological effect of liver enzyme induction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Bennard van Ravenzwaay, Werner Mellert, Georgia Coelho Palermo Cunha, Eric Fabian, Volker Strauss, Hennicke Kamp, Tilmann B. Walk, Ralf Looser, Michael Manfred Herold, Jan C. Wiemer, Alexandre Prokoudine, Edgar Leibold
  • Patent number: 8808575
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of compounds of general formula (I) Lia-bM1bV2-cM2c(PO4)x??(I) wherein M1, M2, a, b, c and x have the following meanings: M1: Na, K, Rb and/or Cs, M2: Ti, Zr, Nb, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Al, Mg and/or Sc, a: 1.5-4.5, b: 0-0.6, c: 0-1.98 and x: number to equalize the charge of Li and V and M1 and/or M2, if present, wherein a-b is >0, to a compound according to general formula (I) as defined above, to spherical agglomerates and/or particles comprising at least one compound of general formula (I) as defined above, to the use of such a compound for the preparation of a cathode of a lithium ion battery or an electrochemical cell, and to a cathode for a lithium ion battery, comprising at least one compound as defined above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Hartmut Hibst, Brian Roberts, Jordan Keith Lampert, Kirill Bramnik
  • Patent number: 8809535
    Abstract: Substituted pyridines of the formula I in which the variables are defined according to the description, processes and intermediates for preparing the compounds of the formula I and their N-oxides, their agriculturally suitable salts, compositions comprising them and their use as herbicides, and also methods for controlling unwanted vegetation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Matthias Witschel, William Karl Moberg, Liliana Parra Rapado, Tao Qu, Frank Stelzer, Andree Van Der Kloet, Thomas Seitz, Thomas Ehrhardt, Klaus Kreuz, Klaus Grossmann, Anna Aleksandra Michrowska-Pianowska, Anja Simon, Ruediger Reingruber, Helmut Kraus, Dschun Song, Julia Major, Johannes Hutzler, Trevor William Newton, Hans Wolfgang Hoeffken, Thomas Mietzner
  • Patent number: 8809575
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing isocyanates by reacting the corresponding amines with phosgene in the gas phase, optionally in the presence of an inert medium, in which the amine and the phosgene are first mixed and converted to the isocyanate in a reactor, and in which a reaction gas (1) which comprises isocyanate and hydrogen chloride leaving the reactor is cooled in a quench (3) by adding a liquid quench medium (5) to form a mixture of reaction gas and quench medium as the product stream (7). The quench medium (5) used is a mixture which comprises at least one solvent and isocyanate and which is withdrawn from the preparation process, any solid particles present in the quench medium (5) being removed before addition to the quench (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Carsten Knoesche, Torsten Mattke, Patric Mueller
  • Patent number: 8809233
    Abstract: Herbicidally active compositions, which comprise 4-amino-3,6-dichloropyridine-2-carboxylic acid (common name: aminopyralid), 2-[(RS)-4-isopropyl-4-methyl-5-oxo-2-imidazolin-2-yl]-5-methoxymethylnicotinic acid (common name: imazamox) and at least one herbicide B from the group of the lipid biosynthesis inhibitors, acetohydroxyacid synthase inhibitors, carotenoid biosynthesis inhibitors, auxin herbicides, mitosis inhibitors, protoporphyrinogen IX oxidase inhibitors, growth substances, and a variety of other herbicides selected from aziprotryn, barban, bensulide, benzthiazuron, benzofluor, buminafos, buthidazole, buturon, cafenstrole, chlorbufam, xhlorofenprop-methyl, chloroxuron, cinmethylin, cumyluron, cycluron, cyprazine, cyprazole, dibenzyluron, dipropetryn, dymron, eglinazin-ethyl, endothall, ethiozin, flucabazone, fluorbentranil, flupoxam, isocarbamid, isopropalin, karbutilate, mefluidide, monuron, napropamide, napropanilide, nitralin, oxaciclomefone, phenisopham, piperophos, procyazine, profluralin, pyri
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Yannick Griveau, Hagen Bremer, Matthias Pfenning
  • Patent number: 8808781
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing vanillin, which comprises an electrochemical oxidation of an aqueous, lignin-comprising suspension or solution at an anode, wherein the anode used is a silver electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignees: BASF SE, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitaet Bonn
    Inventors: Florian Stecker, Itamar Michael Malkowsky, Andreas Fischer, Siegfried R. Waldvogel, Carolin Regenbrecht