US Patent Issued to ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL) on May 27 for "Degradation of plastic materials into terephthalic acid (TPA), ethylene glycol and/or other monomers that form the plastic materials" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,306, issued on May 27, was assigned to ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL) (Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Degradation of plastic materials into terephthalic acid (TPA), ethylene glycol and/or other monomers that form the plastic materials" was invented by Samantha Lynn Anderson (Pully, Switzerland), Christopher Patrick Ireland (Pont-de-la-Morge, Switzerland), Berend Smit (St-Sulpice, Switzerland) and Kyriakos Stylianou (Sion, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for degradation of plastic materials into terephthalic acid (TPA) and/or ethylene glycol and/or other monomers that form the pl...