ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,362, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Imperbel (Beersel, Belgium).

"Process of recycling a bituminous waste product such as a waste bituminous membrane product" was invented by Guillaume Moreels (Bergensesteenweg, Belgium), Julien Dormal (Bergensesteenweg, Belgium), Caroline Martin (Bergensesteenweg, Belgium), Koen Sneiders (Bergensesteenweg, Belgium) and Patrick Cogneau (Bergensesteenweg, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process of recycling a bituminous product or a bituminous membrane product contacting reinforcement layers. Collecting the waste bituminous products and sorting it in a series of waste bituminous product bat...