ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,981, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to DIAPER RECYCLING TECHNOLOGY PTE. LTD. (Singapore).

"Hygiene article recycling unit" was invented by Martin Scaife (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an equipment in the field of hygiene article manufacturing, in particular to a hygiene article recycling unit for disintegrating and separating hygiene articles allowing to separate raw materials at a purity allowing to directly use it in the manufacturing process of the hygiene articles. The recycling unit comprised several devices as sub-units. The present invention further relates to a process for operating ...