US Patent Issued to Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) on Aug. 5 for "Multi-material disassembly" (Luxembourger Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,449, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) (Luxembourg).

"Multi-material disassembly" was invented by Abdelghani Laachachi (Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg), Nicolas Burger (Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg), Gregory Mertz (Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg) and David Ruch (Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite material comprising at least two substrates onto which a layer of an intumescent composition is set therebetween, the composition comprising a mixture of following individual constituents: from 5 weight % to 70 wt % of at least one carbon source, from 0 wei...