ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,504, issued on May 13, was assigned to SK Innovation Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea) and SK Geo Centric Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Pyrolysis method of waste plastics using batch reactor" was invented by Sanghwan Jo (Daejeon, South Korea), Sookil Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Jaeheum Jung (Daejeon, South Korea) and Howon Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a pyrolysis method of waste plastics including the steps of inputting waste plastics to a batch reactor and performing heating to produce a waste plastic melt at a first temperature; heating the waste plastic melt to remove chlorine from the melt a...