ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,949, issued on July 14, was assigned to CARBIOS (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

"Process for degrading plastic products" was invented by Madiha Aloui Dalibey (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a process for degrading a plastic product comprising at least one polymer, the process comprising submitting the plastic product to a spinning step to obtain fibers of said plastic product; and depolymerizing at least one polymer of said fibers."

The patent was filed on Dec. 18, 2020, under Application No. 17/786,580.

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