ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,217, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).
"Methods for recovering expanded polymer tooling" was invented by Xiaoxi Wang (Mukilteo, Wash.), Gary Ernest Georgeson (Tacoma, Wash.) and Jonathan A. Santiago (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of recovering and/or recycling expanded polymer tooling, the methods including collecting expanded polymer tooling, reducing the collected expanded polymer tooling into smaller particles, treating the reduced expanded polymer tooling in order to yield an at least partially purified recovered polymer composition, and then collecting the at least partially purif...