ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,888, issued on May 20, was assigned to Ecolab USA Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Stabilizer additives for plastic-derived synthetic feedstock" was invented by Theodore C. Arnst (Sugar Land, Texas), Karina Eureste (Iowa Colony, Texas), Kameswara Vyakaranam (Sugar Land, Texas), Jan Van Bauwel (Oelegem, Belgium) and Ashish Dhawan (Aurora, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are antioxidants used in compositions and methods to stabilize synthetic feedstock derived from plastic. Some methods disclosed herein include adding an antioxidant composition to a plastic-derived synthetic feedstock composition. Some methods disclosed herein in...