ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,926, issued on July 14, was assigned to LG Chem Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Monomer composition for synthesizing recycled plastic, preparation method thereof, and recycled plastic, molded product, plasticizer composition using the same" was invented by Tae Seung Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Jeongnam Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jihwan Hwang (Daejeon, South Korea) and Mooho Hong (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a monomer composition for synthesizing recycled plastic that can secure terephthalic acid with low moisture content and increased particle size while recovering from a (co)po...