ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,160, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Infinited Fiber Co. (Espoo, Finland).
"Separation of polycotton blends" was invented by Ali Harlin (Espoo, Finland), Sakari Siren (Espoo, Finland) and Jani Makela (Espoo, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of separating cellulosic fibres and non-cellulosic fibres from a mixed fibre textile material comprising cellulosic and non-cellulosic fibres. The method comprises mechanically disintegrating the textile material to open textile structures in the material, contacting the mechanically opened structures with a...