US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on March 25 for "Methods for producing alkylbenzenes, paraffins, olefins and oxo alcohols from waste plastic feedstocks" (Ohio, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,539, issued on March 25, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Methods for producing alkylbenzenes, paraffins, olefins and oxo alcohols from waste plastic feedstocks" was invented by Jeffrey John Scheibel (Glendale, Ohio), Phillip Kyle Vinson (Fairfield, Ohio), Scott Leroy Cron (Liberty Township, Ohio) and Thomas Earl Williams (Jackson Township, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates generally to methods for producing detergent compounds from waste plastic feedstocks. More specifically, the invention relates to methods for producing detergent intermediates, including alkylbenzenes, paraff...