ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,007, issued on May 20, was assigned to TACLOV LLC (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Media recycling and sanitization" 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 magnetic and/or metallic components are obtained from a multicomponent polyester device by reacting the multicomponent polyester device with an amine organocatalyst and/or carboxylic acid salt of same and an alcohol solvent. The reaction recovers (i) the polyester-free magnetic and/or metallic components as solid inert by-products of the reaction, (ii) the amine organocatalyst and/or carboxylic acid sal...