US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies, University of Guelph on Aug. 25 for "Hybrid automotive paint sludge (APS) char products and method of manufacture thereof" (Canadian, Turkish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,772, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.) and University of Guelph (Guelph, Canada).

"Hybrid automotive paint sludge (APS) char products and method of manufacture thereof" was invented by Amar K. Mohanty (Guelph, Canada), Manjusri Misra (Guelph, Canada), Arturo Rodriguez (Guelph, Canada), Poritosh Roy (Guelph, Canada), Neelima Tripathi (Guelph, Canada), Michael Snowdon (Guelph, Canada), Deborah Frances Mielewski (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Alper Kiziltas (Sarikamis, Turkey).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing a charred sludge material includes combining automotive paint sludge (...