US Patent Issued to ExxonMobil Product Solutions on June 30 for "Liquefying and dehalogenating waste plastics" (Tennessee, Texas, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,677, issued on June 30, was assigned to ExxonMobil Product Solutions Co. (Spring, Texas).

"Liquefying and dehalogenating waste plastics" was invented by Bruce Roger DeBruin (Gray, Tenn.), Daryl Bitting (Longview, Texas), David Eugene Slivensky (Tatum, Texas), Xianchun Wu (Longview, Texas), Michael Paul Ekart (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: "A process and system for liquefying and dehalogenating a waste plastic are provided. Generally, the process comprises: (a) liquefying solid waste plastic to produce a liquefied waste plastic; (b) h...