US Patent Issued to Anellotech on June 17 for "Robotic separation of plastics for chemical recycling" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,345, issued on June 17, was assigned to Anellotech Inc. (Pearl River, N.Y.).

"Robotic separation of plastics for chemical recycling" was invented by Leslaw Mleczko (Dormagen, Germany), Yu-Ting Cheng (Pearl River, N.Y.), Gregory S. Coil (Pearl River, N.Y.) and Harley Freeman (Pearl River, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention comprises methods of robotically separating unwanted heteroatom-containing materials from a plastic mixture and catalytically pyrolyzing the resulting mixed plastics to obtain olefins and aromatics. Systems and compositions useful in the catalytic pyrolysis of plastics are also described."

The patent...