ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,581, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Boise State University (Boise, Idaho).
"Closed-loop recycling of scalable plastics" was invented by Scott Phillips (Boise, Idaho) and Allison Christy (Nampa, Idaho).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a nontoxic poly(ethyl cyanoacrylate) (PECA) plastic. The PECA-based plastic is sourced from non-petroleum feedstocks and can be thermally and/or mechanically converted back to the ethyl cyanoacrylate monomer in a closed-loop recycling system with high monomer recovery. The disclosure also provides for methods of making the PECA plastics and methods of recycling the PECA...