ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,958, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to SOLARCYCLE Inc. (Mesa, Ariz.).
"Sieving of materials in solar module for recycling" was invented by Pablo Ribeiro Dias (Mesa, Ariz.) and Lucas Margarezzi Schmidt (Mesa, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of apparatuses and methods of solar module recycling, employ sieving for separation of materials. According to one embodiment, a method comprises milling a solar module to create a first feedstock comprising polymer, copper, and silicon. A first sieving of the first feedstock is performed to create a first retained fraction and a first passed fraction. The first retained fraction ...