ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,290, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (Zhejiang, China) and ZHEJIANG JUHUA NEW MATERIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China).

"Method for producing tetrafluoromethane through plasma pyrolysis of waste polytetrafluoroethylene" was invented by Qiwei Yang (Zhejiang, China), Wenjun Zhang (Zhejiang, China), Qilong Ren (Zhejiang, China), Liyang Zhou (Zhejiang, China), Shuhua Wang (Zhejiang, China), Wei Qin (Zhejiang, China), Hongfeng Li (Zhejiang, China), Zhiguo Zhang (Zhejiang, China), Zongbi Bao (Zhejiang, China) and Baogen Su (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for producin...