ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,776, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Korea University Research and Business Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Chemical and biological integrated degradation process for polyethylene terephthalate (PET), for recycling pet" was invented by Kyoung Heon Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Dong Hyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Dong Oh Han (Seoul, South Korea) and Jae Kyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a chemical and biological integrated degradation process for PET, for recycling PET, and, more specifically, the present invention provides a PET upcycling technique for producing a high-value...