US Patent Issued to PACESETTER on Jan. 27 for "Fabrication of capacitors and recovery of capacitor fabrication materials" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,142, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to PACESETTER INC. (Sylmar, Calif.).

"Fabrication of capacitors and recovery of capacitor fabrication materials" was invented by Ralph Jason Hemphill (Sunset, S.C.), Henry Buser III (Greenville, S.C.), Shelley M. Smith (Easley, S.C.), Brian Smith (Pickens, S.C.) and Debbie Uselman (Liberty, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fabricating a capacitor include using a first etching solution to etch a first sheet of material so as to generate a spent etchant. At least one chemical component is recovered from the spent etchant. A second etching solution is used to etch a second sheet of material. The s...