ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,767, issued on May 19, was assigned to ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc. (Baytown, Texas).
"Co-processing of waste plastic in cokers" was invented by Bryan A. Patel (Jersey City, N.J.), Randolph J. Smiley (Hellertown, Pa.), Lawrence R. Gros (Katy, Texas) and Mohsen N. Harandi (New Hope, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for co-processing of plastic waste in a coking environment or other thermal conversion environment. The co-processing of plastic waste in a coking environment can be performed by performing four types of processes on the plastic waste. The plastic waste can be conditioned by classifying...