US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations S.L.U. on April 7 for "Methods for recycling plastic Nylon 6,6 from vacuum bags to obtain filaments or powder for 3D printing processes" (Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,694, issued on April 7, was assigned to Airbus Operations S.L.U. (Getafe, Spain).

"Methods for recycling plastic Nylon 6,6 from vacuum bags to obtain filaments or powder for 3D printing processes" was invented by Enrique Guinaldo Fernandez (Getafe, Spain), Tamara Blanco Varela (Getafe, Spain), Guillermo Hernaiz Lopez (Getafe, Spain) and Jose Sanchez Gomez (Getafe, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for recycling plastic Nylon 6,6 from vacuum bags to obtain filaments or powder for 3D printing processes. The method to obtain filaments includes a step of providing used Nylon 6,6 vacuum bags, a quality control step to check the...