ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,342, issued on June 17, was assigned to Universidad de Alicante (Alicante, Spain).

"Method for removing adhesives and/or interlaminar inks on laminated plastic material" was invented by Andres Fullana Font (San Vicente del Raspeig, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for removing interlaminar adhesives and/or inks on laminated plastic material, which comprises the following steps:a) microperforating the laminated plastic material with at least one microperforation per cm2,b) removing the ink and/or adhesive by adding a washing solution to the microperforated plastic resulting from step a),c)...