This Mexican Entrepreneur Just Filed a USPTO Patent That Could Change How American Industry Sources Recycled Plastic
HOUSTON, TX / ACCESS Newswire / May 18, 2026 /For most people, the words recycled plastic resin do not inspire much excitement. But for the thousands of American manufacturers who depend on reliable, quality-certified polymer materials to keep their production lines running, this is not an abstract topic. It is a daily operational reality and for years, it has been a daily operational headache.
That headache now has a documented, patented solution. And it comes from an unlikely place: a Mexican entrepreneur running a polymer distribution company out of The Woodlands, Texas.
Fernando Jasso Palacio, founder and owner of Maja World Wide LLC, recently filed a provisional patent application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a system he developed over more than two decades of hands-on experience in the polymer supply chain industry. The patent Application No. 64/043,650, filed April 19, 2026 is titled 'System and Method for Multi-Criteria Grading, Quality Certification, and Industry-Specific Matching of Recycled Plastic Resins for Secondary Industrial Supply Chain Distribution. '
In plain terms, Fernando built a structured, repeatable process for taking recycled plastic post-industrial and post-consumer waste material that would otherwise end up in a landfill evaluating it across six technical dimensions, grading it on a three-tier quality scale, and matching it to the precise specifications of American industrial manufacturers who need it.
The Problem Nobody Was Solving
The American recycling industry has a well-documented credibility problem. Not in collection millions of tons of plastic are collected for recycling every year. The problem is in what happens next.
Recycled plastic resins the raw material form that manufacturers actually need are notoriously inconsistent in quality. A batch sourced from one supplier might process beautifully in an injection mold. The next batch from the same supplier might produce defects, equipment jams, or contaminated product. Buyers have learned through painful experience that recycled resin is unpredictable, and many have simply stopped buying it.
This is a problem for the environment. It is a problem for manufacturers trying to hit their sustainability targets. And it is a problem for the United States circular economy agenda that the EPA and major industrial corporations have spent years trying to build.
"The problem with recycled polymers was never the material itself. The problem was confidence. Buyers did not trust that the quality would be there. My job is to build that confidence. "
Those are the words Fernando Jasso has been living by for over twenty years. And now they are the foundation of a USPTO patent application.
What the Patent Actually Does
The system Fernando invented and now owns the intellectual property for through Maja World Wide LLC works in six steps.
When a batch of recycled resin arrives, it goes through a visual inspection for color, contamination, moisture, and odor. The polymer type is verified whether it is polypropylene, high-density polyethylene, or low-density polyethylene. The physical form is documented. Then comes technical testing: melt flow index measurement, density testing, and impact strength assessment where required. After that, a processing behavior test the material is actually run through an extruder or injection mold to check for gels, degradation streaks, and flow inconsistencies that physical testing alone cannot catch. Finally, the supplier 's historical reliability is scored based on their track record.
The result is a grade: A for near-prime quality, B for commercial grade, C for low-grade material that needs blending before industrial use.
When a buyer calls with a requirement, the system matches the right grade to their specific processing method, end-use application, technical specifications, variation tolerance, and cost target. If no single grade meets the full specification, the system calculates the optimal blend ratio of recycled to virgin resin 30/70, 50/50, or 70/30 to get there.
It sounds almost obvious when described this way. That is usually how the best inventions work.
The Scale Behind the Patent
What makes this patent particularly significant is that it is not a theoretical system. It is the documented operational methodology behind one of the largest recycled and virgin polymer distribution operations in the United States.
Maja World Wide LLC, Fernando 's Houston-area company, distributes more than 3,000 tons of polymer materials every month across more than 15 US states. It serves over 500 industrial clients spanning packaging manufacturers, construction companies, automotive suppliers, and consumer goods producers. The company has been distributing both virgin and recycled polymers polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene for years, with the grading and matching system now formalized in the patent serving as the operational engine behind every transaction.
When Fernando files this patent, he is not describing something he hopes to build. He is documenting something he already built and proved at scale.
Why This Matters for American Manufacturing
The United States generates hundreds of millions of tons of plastic waste annually. A significant portion of it post-industrial and post-consumer thermoplastic resins could theoretically be recovered and reused in manufacturing. Practically speaking, very little of it is, because the reliability gap between what manufacturers need and what recycled resin suppliers can consistently deliver has never been systematically bridged.
Fernando Jasso 's patent is a direct attack on that gap. It provides the structured methodology that manufacturers need to trust recycled resin as a production input and that the US circular economy needs to function at industrial scale rather than remaining an aspiration in corporate sustainability reports.
For a country that has made domestic supply chain resilience a national policy priority, and for an industrial sector that is under growing pressure to reduce its virgin plastic consumption, the timing could not be better.
Fernando Jasso Palacio, for his part, is not finished building. His vision for Maja World Wide extends deeper into recycled polymer recovery, further across the US manufacturing market, and with this patent now pending into formal ownership of the system that makes it all work.
For more information about Maja World Wide LLC visitwww.majaworldwide.com
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