ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,724, issued on July 29, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Method of recycling carbon fiber" was invented by Yusuke Numata (Toyota, Japan), Hiroyuki Ishii (Toyota, Japan), Akira Kano (Toyota, Japan) and Shinichiroh Hirayama (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of recycling carbon fibers that allows obtaining continuous carbon fibers. The present embodiment is a method of recycling carbon fibers that includes preparing a carbon fiber reinforced plastic molded product including carbon fiber reinforced plastic containing carbon fibers and a resin and drawing the carbon fiber reinforced pl...