US Patent Issued to TACLOV on June 3 for "Recycling process for the recovery of cotton from polyester-cotton fabrics and/or fibers" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,792, issued on June 3, was assigned to TACLOV LLC (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Recycling process for the recovery of cotton from polyester-cotton fabrics and/or fibers" was invented by Gregory Breyta (San Jose, Calif.) and Robert David Allen (Golden, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Polyester-free cotton is obtained from a fabric and/or fibers containing polyester and cotton by reacting the fabric and/or fibers with an amine organocatalyst and/or carboxylic acid salt of same and an alcohol solvent. The reaction, which may be run in batches or as a continuous flow process, recovers (i) polyester-free cotton as a solid inert by-product of the r...