US Patent Issued to LENZING on June 3 for "Method for producing a cellulose paper material from used textiles" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,070, issued on June 3, was assigned to LENZING AG (Lenzing, Austria).

"Method for producing a cellulose paper material from used textiles" was invented by Richard Herchl (Ried im Innkreis, Austria) and Christian Weilach (Vocklabruck, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a cellulosic paper material (150) is described. The method comprises: i) providing (105) used textiles as starting material (101), wherein the used textiles comprise cellulose and non-cellulosic foreign matters (in particular synthetic plastics and/or metal oxides), ii) at least partially depleting (120) the non-cellulosic foreign matters f...