US Patent Issued to OXFORD UNIVERSITY INNOVATION on March 4 for "Process for producing hydrogen from thermoplastic polymers with electromagnetic radiation" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,951, issued on March 4, was assigned to OXFORD UNIVERSITY INNOVATION Ltd. (Oxford, Great Britain).

"Process for producing hydrogen from thermoplastic polymers with electromagnetic radiation" was invented by Tiancun Xiao (Oxford, Great Britain), Peter P. Edwards (Oxford, Great Britain) and Xiangyu Jie (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a process for (a) recycling plastic; and/or (b) producing hydrogen; and/or (c) producing syngas; and/or (d) producing carbon nanotubes, wherein the process comprises exposing a solid composition comprising one or more thermoplastic or thermosetting polym...