US Patent Issued to NAN YA PLASTICS on Nov. 11 for "Method for recycling polyester fabrics with use of ionic liquid catalyst" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,934, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to NAN YA PLASTICS Corp. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Method for recycling polyester fabrics with use of ionic liquid catalyst" was invented by Te-Chao Liao (Taipei, Taiwan), Jung-Jen Chuang (Taipei, Taiwan), Wei-Sheng Cheng (Taipei, Taiwan), Zhang-Jian Huang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Yu-Ti Tseng (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for recycling polyester fabrics with use of an ionic liquid catalyst is provided, which includes: providing a recycled polyester fabric; and using a chemical de-polymerization liquid to chemically de-polymerize the recycled polyester fabric and form a de-polymeriza...