ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,928, issued on April 8, was assigned to EBARA ENVIRONMENTAL PLANT Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Raw-material supply system and raw-material supply method" was invented by Takayuki Ihara (Tokyo), Takashi Fujiwara (Tokyo) and Takeshi Mukai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a raw-material supply system and a raw-material supply method for pyrolyzing waste plastic including PVC and PET. The raw-material supply system includes: a slaked-lime supply device (12) configured to feed slaked lime to the waste plastic; an operation controller (15) configured to instruct the slaked-lime supply device (12) to feed the sla...