US Patent Issued to Eastman Chemical on April 7 for "Chemical recycling of materials comprising waste automotive carpet" (Tennessee, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,351, issued on April 7, was assigned to Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, Tenn.).

"Chemical recycling of materials comprising waste automotive carpet" was invented by Bruce Roger DeBruin (Gray, Tenn.), Michael Paul Ekart (Kingsport, Tenn.), David Milton Lange (Blountville, Tenn.), Aaron Nathaniel Edens (Weber City, Va.), Anne-Martine Sherbeck Jackson (Jonesborough, Tenn.), Nathan Mitchell West (Kingsport, Tenn.) and Zhufang Liu (Kingsport, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Chemical recycling facilities for processing mixed waste plastic are provided herein. Such facilities have the capability of processing mixed plastic waste strea...