ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,261, issued on June 30, was assigned to Covestro Deutschland AG (Leverkusen, Germany).
"Easily recyclable thermoplastic housing" was invented by Meiying Zhu (Shanghai), Jiru Meng (Shanghai) and Guanghui Wu (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a housing assembly based on polycarbonate material, of which at least the front cover and the back cover are easily recyclable due to its separability into different parts for all components which are attached to the front cover or the back cover and which cannot be recycled together with the front cover or the back cover, respectively. Snap-fits, interference-fits, ...