ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,452, issued on March 25, was assigned to Technische Universitat Clausthal (Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany) and MPM Environment Intelligence GmbH (Bad Grund, Germany).
"Method for complete recycling of inorganic-fiber reinforced epoxy composites with boron halides" was invented by Dieter Eckhard Kaufmann (Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany), Viktor Zapolskii (Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany), Peter Kolbe (Bad Grund, Germany) and Gerd Uhde (Bad Grund, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is related to a method for recycling a composite material comprising inorganic fibers and an epoxy-resin in a one pot reaction, where...