US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University on Oct. 7 for "Treated plastic granules" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,410, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Treated plastic granules" was invented by Elham Fini (Phoenix) and Sk Faisal Kabir (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Preparing hybrid-treated plastic particles from waste plastic includes combining waste plastic particles with bio-oil to yield a mixture, irradiating the mixture with microwave radiation to yield oil-treated plastic particles, and contacting the oil-treated plastic particles with carbon-containing nanoparticles to yield hybrid-treated plastic particles. The hybrid-treated plastic particl...