US Patent Issued to Eastman Chemical on Jan. 13 for "Catalyst systems for crystallizable reactor grade resins with recycled content" (Tennessee, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,695, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, Tenn.).

"Catalyst systems for crystallizable reactor grade resins with recycled content" was invented by Earl Edmondson Howell Jr. (Cookeville, Tenn.), Aaron Nathaniel Edens (Weber City, Va.), Anne-Martine Sherbeck Jackson (Kingsport, Tenn.), Donna Rice Quillen (Kingsport, Tenn.), Carol Julliard Greene (Kingsport, Tenn.), Mark Allen Peters (Jonesborough, Tenn.), Jonathan Michael Horton (Kingsport, Tenn.), Travis Wynn Keever (Gray, Tenn.), Michael Paul Ekart (Kingsport, Tenn.) and Erin G. Ekart (Gray, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for producing a...