ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,730, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to CCT INTERNATIONAL (Antwerpen-Berchem, Belgium).

"Method for pyrolysis of waste material in the presence of an auxiliary material" was invented by Johannes Dingenis Van Der Endt (Antwerp, Belgium) and Rik Van Meirhaeghe (Gavere, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for thermally decomposing a carbonaceous waste material including: filling a reactor defined by a reactor wall with the waste material and an auxiliary material, resulting in a reactor content, the auxiliary material including abrasive particles; heating the reactor contents in the absence of oxygen, such that gaseous product...