US Patent Issued to NOVASTERILIS on Feb. 10 for "Treatment of elastomeric materials with supercritical CO2" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,770, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NOVASTERILIS INC. (Lansing, N.Y.).

"Treatment of elastomeric materials with supercritical CO2" was invented by Tony Eisenhut (Lansing, N.Y.), David Bednarski (Lansing, N.Y.), James Gustafson (Lansing, N.Y.), Mark McHugh (Lansing, N.Y.) and Eric Eisenhut (Lansing, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for treating elastomeric materials with supercritical CO2 such that they can be used or reused as intended prior to exposure to supercritical CO2. The process includes the following steps: (a) loading the elastomeric materials into a vessel and closing the vessel; (b) introducing CO2 into t...