ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,123, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc. (Baytown, Texas).

"Light olefin recovery from plastic waste pyrolysis" was invented by Sundararajan Uppili (Jersey Village, Texas), Bryan A. Patel (Jersey City, N.J.), Randolph J. Smiley (Hellertown, Pa.), Lawrence R. Gros (Katy, Texas), Anthony Go (Houston), Saurabh S. Maduskar (Houston), Melissa D. Foster (Humble, Texas) and Philippe Laurent (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for integration of a reactor for polyolefin pyrolysis with the effluent processing train for a steam cracker. The polyolefins can correspond to, fo...