ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,780, issued on July 22, was assigned to Inter IKEA Systems B.V. (Delft, Netherlands).
"Polyester textile waste recycling" was invented by Zengwei Guo (Gothenburg, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for recycling polyester from a polyester textile. The method comprises the steps of: providing said polyester textile soaked in a mixture comprising a solvent and a catalyst, providing and maintaining a temperature of said mixture comprising said polyester textile within a range of 80-240deg C. during depolymerization of polyester in said polyester textile and wherein, in said step of providing said polyester textile soaked in ...