ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,510, issued on April 21, was assigned to SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V. (Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands).

"Phenol recovery of bisphenol-A mother liquor purge using purification train in the phenol production unit" was invented by Kadek Sumpena (Nederweert, Netherlands), Lara Galan-Sanchez (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Frank Mostert (Maastricht, Netherlands), Kae Shin Wong (Maasmechelen, Belgium), Martino Trabuio (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Mark Erik Nelson (Mt. Vernon, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for recovering phenol have been disclosed. The methods of recovering phenol includes concurrently processing, in a p...