ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,255, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to HSCC Sustainable Venturing B.V. (Urmond, Netherlands).

"Process for the recovery of epsilon-caprolactam from nylon 6-containing multi-component material" was invented by Jasper Verduyckt (Urmond, Netherlands), Jarno Martijn Westerhof (Urmond, Netherlands), Peter Roos (Urmond, Netherlands), Anna Dite Cuiper (Urmond, Netherlands), Kate Emily Murphy (Urmond, Netherlands), Wenjing Fu (Urmond, Netherlands) and Johan Thomas Tinge (Urmond, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application provides a process for recovering purified Epsilon-caprolactam from nylon 6-containing multi-component ma...