US Patent Issued to KANAGAWA UNIVERSITY on Jan. 20 for "Fiber-reinforced plastics and methods for recovering fibers contained therein" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,920, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to KANAGAWA UNIVERSITY (Yokohama, Japan).

"Fiber-reinforced plastics and methods for recovering fibers contained therein" was invented by Nobuhiro Kihara (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a fiber-reinforced plastic from which fibers can be readily recovered in a reusable state. A fiber-reinforced plastic contains a matrix polymer compound having cleavable functional groups represented by Formula (1), where wavy lines represent bonds to other atoms. When the polymer compound having cleavable functional groups represented by Formula (1) is put into contact with an aqueous so...