US Patent Issued to CERDIA INTERNATIONAL on Aug. 19 for "Method for recycling cellulose acetate-containing material, pellets, extrudate, granulate thereof, and systems for recycling cellulose acetate-containing material" (German, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,844, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to CERDIA INTERNATIONAL GMBH (Switzerland).

"Method for recycling cellulose acetate-containing material, pellets, extrudate, granulate thereof, and systems for recycling cellulose acetate-containing material" was invented by Stefan Rother (Freiburg, Germany), Uwe Schaffner (Vorstetten, Germany) and Andre Schonberger (Bantzenheim, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for recycling cellulose acetate-containing material, such as a filter tow starting material which consists of cellulose acetate or at least has cellulose acetate. The method has the following steps: s...