ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,382, issued on May 27, was assigned to GS Gesellschaft fur Umwelt- und Energie-Serviceleistungen mbH (Eigeltingen, Germany).

"Method and system for separating dust-containing material mixtures from the process of recycling electric or electronic devices" was invented by Georg Schons (Eigeltingen, Germany), Marc Schons (Eigeltingen, Germany) and Henrik Reske (Eigeltingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method and a system for separating dust-containing material mixtures which contain fibers, preferably glass fibers, and have heavy metal (SM) and/or precious metal (EM) from the process of recycling el...