ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,227, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Syre Inc. (Chapel Hill, N.C.).
"Process and system for depolymerizing plastic" was invented by Matthew Craig Parrott (Chapel Hill, N.C.), James Christopher Luft (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Donald B. Shuping (Pittsboro, N.C.) and Michael Dean Mattiace (Chapel Hill, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A continuous flow process and system for depolymerizing plastic. A heterogeneous mixture of solid plastic particles, a solvent, and a catalyst are pumped continuously through a heating zone at a flow rate resulting in a particle speed sufficient to keep the plastic particles in suspension. The heterogeneous ...