ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,948, issued on July 14, was assigned to GreenMantra Recycling Technologies Ltd. (Brantford, Canada).

"Wax as a melt flow modifier and processing aid for polymers" was invented by Domenic Di Mondo (Brampton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved method forms and employs a wax to modify throughputs and melt flow in polymers. The method includes: (a) selecting a solid polymeric material, (b) heating the solid polymeric material in an extruder to produce a molten polymeric material, (c) filtering the molten polymeric material, (d) placing the molten polymeric material through a chemical depolymerization process in a reactor t...