US Patent Issued to W.R. GRACE & Co.-CONN., UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAIS VASCO on Sept. 8 for "Catalytic pyrolysis of plastics to produce petrochemical feedstock" (Spanish, American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,408, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to W.R. GRACE & Co.-CONN. (Columbia, Md.) and UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAIS VASCO (Leioa, Spain).

"Catalytic pyrolysis of plastics to produce petrochemical feedstock" was invented by Wu-Cheng Cheng (Columbia, Md.), Robert Hibbard Harding (Woodstock, Md.), Alessia Padovani (Baden Wurttemberg, Germany), Guang Yuan (Clarksville, Md.), Gartzen Lopez Zabalbeitia (Leioa, Spain) and Martin Olazar Aurrecoechea (Leioa, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology is generally related to the process of converting plastics to olefin and aromatics through pyrolysis, wherein the process of producing at l...