US Patent Issued to Chevron U.S.A. on Nov. 4 for "Blend of waste plastic with bio feed and process of preparation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,138, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.).

"Blend of waste plastic with bio feed and process of preparation" was invented by Tengfei Liu (San Ramon, Calif.), Joel E Schmidt (San Ramon, Calif.) and Hye-Kyung C. Timken (Albany, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a composition comprising a blend of a waste plastic and a bio feedstock. Also provided is a process for preparing a stable blend of a plastic and bio feedstock which can be stored or transported if desired. The amount of plastic in the blend comprises no more than 20 wt. % of the blend. The blend can be passed to a conversion u...