US Patent Issued to CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL, RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM PROCESSING, SINOPEC on Aug. 12 for "Method and system for treating waste plastic material" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,972, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL Corp. (Beijing) and RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM PROCESSING, SINOPEC (Beijing).

"Method and system for treating waste plastic material" was invented by Mingfeng Li (Beijing), Liang Zou (Beijing), Zhiqiang Wang (Beijing), Hongwei Li (Beijing), Xiaoli Wei (Beijing), Guofu Xia (Beijing), Run Xu (Beijing), Shuqing Wang (Beijing), Jili Hou (Beijing) and Pengfei Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for pretreating waste plastics and a method and system for producing an automotive fuel from waste plastics are provided. The method for pretreatin...