US Patent Issued to Eastman Chemical on July 21 for "Chemical recycling of solvolysis terephthalyl column bottoms coproduct streams" (Tennessee, Texas, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,753, issued on July 21, was assigned to Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, Tenn.).

"Chemical recycling of solvolysis terephthalyl column bottoms coproduct streams" was invented by Bruce Roger DeBruin (Gray, Tenn.), Daryl Bitting (Longview, Texas), David Eugene Slivensky (Tatum, Texas), Xianchun Wu (Longview, Texas), Travis Wynn Keever (Jonesborough, Tenn.), Michael Paul Ekart (Kingsport, Tenn.), Jaclyn Erin Shuman (Kingsport, Tenn.), Timothy Glenn Schaefer (Kingsport, Tenn.), Justin William Murphy (Kingsport, Tenn.), David Milton Lange (Blountville, Tenn.) and Aaron Nathaniel Edens (Weber City, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Descri...