US Patent Issued to Chevron U.S.A. on Nov. 18 for "Processes for transporting waste plastics to a refinery processing unit" (California, Alabama, Mississippi Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,496, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.).

"Processes for transporting waste plastics to a refinery processing unit" was invented by Joel Edward Schmidt (Oakland, Calif.), Tengfei Liu (Fairfield, Calif.), Robert E. Montgomery (Moss Point, Miss.), Richard L. Grove (Spanish Fort, Ala.), Thomas Michael Porritt (Ocean Springs, Miss.) and Hye-Kyung Cho Timken (Albany, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A continuous process for transporting a waste plastic feedstock to a refinery processing unit, includes forming a solution containing (i) about 1 to about 40 wt. %, based on the total weight of the s...