US Patent Issued to REGENERATION on June 17 for "Rivet and method of disassembling a rivet using phase change" (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,248, issued on June 17, was assigned to REGENERATION BV (Waarschoot, Belgium).

"Rivet and method of disassembling a rivet using phase change" was invented by Cedric Vanhoeck (Waarschoot, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for disassembling rivets on textile articles. The rivets include at least two separate rivet elements. One of the rivet elements includes a first and a second material. The first material has a melting and/or glass transition temperature of between 50.0 and 300.0deg C. and second material has a melting and/or glass transition temperature which is at least 20.0deg C. greater than the melting and/or glass ...