US Patent Issued to Eastman Chemical on Aug. 26 for "Chemical recycling of processed mixed plastic waste streams" (Tennessee, Texas, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,328, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, Tenn.).

"Chemical recycling of processed mixed plastic waste streams" was invented by Bruce Roger DeBruin (Gray, Tenn.), Daryl Bitting (Longview, Texas), David Eugene Slivensky (Tatum, Texas), Xianchun Wu (Longview, Texas), Jaclyn Erin Shuman (Kingsport, Tenn.), Timothy Glenn Shaefer (Kingsport, Tenn.), Justin William Murphy (Kingsport, Tenn.), David Milton Lange (Blountville, Tenn.) and Aaron Nathaniel Edens (Weber City, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Chemical recycling facilities for processing mixed plastic waste are provided herein. Such facilities have ...