ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,200, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to UNIVERSIDAD DE ALICANTE (Alicante, Spain).
"Method for decontaminating recycled plastic" was invented by Andres Fullana Font (San Vicente del Raspeig, Spain), Andrea Cabanes Gil (San Vicente del Raspeig, Spain) and Oksana Horodytska (San Vicente del Raspeig, Spain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for decontaminating recycled plastic materials, which comprises the steps of selecting, grinding, washing, rinsing, drying and decontaminating, wherein decontaminating is carried out by means of the steps of extracting and rinsing, and extracting is carried out using a wat...