ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,456, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Anellotech Inc. (Pearl River, N.Y.).

"Process for chemically recycling plastic waste with alkane oxidation products" was invented by Torren Carlson (Pearl River, N.Y.), Leslaw Mleczko (Dormagen, Germany) and Omar M. Basha (Wilmington, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing olefinic and aromatic hydrocarbons from waste plastics comprising feeding a mixture of plastics along with the products of the oxidation of light hydrocarbons to a process in which the feed mixture is catalytically pyrolyzed to produce olefins and aromatics."

The patent was filed on Oct. 11, 2022, under ...