US Patent Issued to ACP TECHNOLOGIES on Oct. 6 for "System and process for increasing a softening point of isotropic pitch" (Michigan, New Jersey, Kentucky, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,347, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to ACP TECHNOLOGIES LLC (St. Clair Shores, Mich.).

"System and process for increasing a softening point of isotropic pitch" was invented by Thomas C. Holcombe (Hillsborough, N.J.), David Christian Boyer (Palm Coast, Fla.), Lane Malone (Grayson, Ky.) and Dominic Lucchi (Royal Oak, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for increasing a softening point of isotropic pitch includes providing a hydrocarbon feed including isotropic pitch having a first softening point and mixing the hydrocarbon feed with a carrier gas such that a mixture of the hydrocarbon feed and the carrier gas establishes at l...