ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,679, issued on June 30, was assigned to NAN YA PLASTICS Corp. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Disposal method for recyclate containing polyester" was invented by Te-Chao Liao (Taipei, Taiwan), Jung-Jen Chuang (Taipei, Taiwan), Zhang-Jian Huang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Mong-Chen Chang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disposal method for recyclate of the disclosure including: providing recyclable containing polyester; performing a first depolymerization step, including mixing the recyclable and o-BHET for reaction and extrusion depolymerization to at least obtain or produce p-BHET; and performing a second depolymerization step, includin...