US Patent Issued to Eastman Chemical on Aug. 25 for "Cellulose ester compositions derived from recycled Cellulose ester content syngas" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,938, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, Tenn.).

"Cellulose ester compositions derived from recycled Cellulose ester content syngas" was invented by Frederick Leslie Colhoun (Kingsport, Tenn.), Ronald Buford Sheppard (Kingsport, Tenn.) and William Lewis Trapp (Kingsport, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for preparing a recycle cellulose ester and a recycle cellulose ester composition and articles made with such recycle cellulose esters comprising at least one cellulose ester having at least one substituent on an anhydroglucose unit (AU) derived from recycled cellulose ester content syngas...