ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,500, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Tianjin University (Tianjin, China).

"Device for continuously producing hydrogen from polyester plastics by photocatalytic degradation" was invented by Zhanjun Cheng (Tianjin, China), Hui Zhou (Tianjin, China), Pengpeng Luan (Tianjin, China), Beibei Yan (Tianjin, China) and Guanyi Chen (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for continuously producing hydrogen from polyester plastics by photocatalytic degradation is provided, including: a machine housing; a feeding mechanism provided at one side of the machine housing, a bottom of the feeding mechanism is in communication with...