US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Aug. 12 for "Processes for viscosity breaking of plastics" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,971, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Processes for viscosity breaking of plastics" was invented by Ki-Hyouk Choi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Abdullah Tariq AlAbdulhadi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Joo-Hyeong Lee (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Young Kyoung Ahn (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Abdullah Saleh Yami (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Saad Abdullah Shahrani (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for converting solid plastic waste to hydrocarbon oil includes melting a feed comprising solid plastic waste to produce a liquefied plastic stream and visbreaking the liquefied plasti...