ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,840, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Nexus Circular LLC (Atlanta).

"Systems and methods for making hydrocarbon compositions derived from pyrolysis of post-consumer and/or post-industrial plastics" was invented by Jeffrey W. Gold (Atlanta) and Connor Cudney (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are reactors for pyrolysis of plastic feedstock comprising post-consumer and/or post-industrial plastics. In various implementations, the reactors include a reactor vessel for receiving and pyrolyzing the plastic feedstock, and one or more heaters for heating the feedstock in the reactor vessel's internal volume."

The pat...