ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,253, issued on March 31, was assigned to ExxonMobil Product Solutions Co. (Spring, Texas).

"Low carbon footprint integrated process for recycle content olefin producers" was invented by Avery L. Anderson (Longview, Texas), Daryl Bitting (Longview, Texas), Michael Gary Polasek (Longview, Texas), David Eugene Slivensky (Tatum, Texas) and Xianchun Wu (Longview, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Integrated processes and facilities for providing recycled content hydrocarbon products (r-products) from mixed waste plastic are provided. Carbon dioxide capture and energy recovery from one or more process streams described herein increase ...