US Patent Issued to NOVA Chemicals (International) on Nov. 25 for "Processes for producing polyethylene containing recycled non-polar polymeric material" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,985, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to NOVA Chemicals (International) S.A. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Processes for producing polyethylene containing recycled non-polar polymeric material" was invented by Marcia Pires Fortes Ferreira (Calgary, Canada), Marzieh Ebrahimi (Calgary, Canada), Renee Anseeuw (Calgary, Canada), Graham Lee (Calgary, Canada), Gurpreet Kooner (Calgary, Canada) and Fazle Sibtain (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are processes for producing blends of recycled polymeric material and virgin polyethylene. Post-consumer recycled plastic (PCR) can vary widely with respect to composition ...