ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,690, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Worcester, Mass.).
"Auto-thermal hydrothermal liquefaction of wastes" was invented by Michael Timko (Arlington, Mass.), Alex R. Maag (Whitinsville, Mass.), Elizabeth Belden (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Geoffrey A Tompsett (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Andrew R. Teixeira (Boylston, Mass.), Aidin Panahi (Worcester, Mass.), Andrew Charlebois (Worcester, Mass.) and Skyler Kauffman (Worcester, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A waste stream of organic matter such as sewage, plant and plastic matter is received for recycling and treated with high temperature and pressure to genera...