ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,638, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TOTALENERGIES ONETECH BELGIUM (Seneffe, Belgium).

"Purification of waste plastic based oil via first a trap and second via an hydrotreatment" was invented by Cindy Adam (Wierde, Belgium), Delphine Minoux (Nivelles, Belgium), Walter Vermeiren (Houthalen, Belgium), Sebastien Leplat (Honfleur, France), Emmanuel Van Loock (Les Bons Villers, Belgium) and Christophe Breton (Honfleur, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Process for the purification of a hydrocarbon stream including: a) Providing a hydrocarbon stream having a diene value of at most 1.5 g I2/100 g and a bromine number of at least 5 g ...