ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,331, issued on July 7.
"System and method for recycling plastics" was invented by Alexander Socransky (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is a process of recycling plastics based on eliminating the need to pre-sort different plastic materials and using physics to separate plastic particles based on the gravitational weight of those particles. Plastics are grounded down into very small pellets using a uniform pressure cylinder with dimples. Then, the small plastic pellets are separated using a float-sink method. Using the float-sink separation method, the plastics can be lifted and organized by density and...