US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on Dec. 9 for "Recycling of superabsorbent fibers with an extensional flow device" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,548, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Recycling of superabsorbent fibers with an extensional flow device" was invented by Juliane Kamphus (Schwalbach am Taunus, Germany), Bruno Johannes Ehrnsperger (Bad Soden, Germany), Arsen Arsenov Simonyan (Schwalbach am Taunus, Germany), Dimitris Ioannis Collias (Mason, Ohio), John Andrew McDaniel (West Chester, Ohio), Martin Ian James (Hamilton, Ohio), Gary Wayne Gilbertson (Liberty Township, Ohio), Jose Carlos Garcia-Garcia (Cincinnati), Jacqueline Besinaiz Thomas (Oregonia, Ohio) and Yiping Sun (Mason, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Superabsorbent f...