US Patent Issued to NAN YA PLASTICS on Nov. 11 for "Method for processing waste fabric containing polyester and cotton fibers" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,933, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to NAN YA PLASTICS Corp. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Method for processing waste fabric containing polyester and cotton fibers" was invented by Te-Chao Liao (Taipei, Taiwan), Jung-Jen Chuang (Taipei, Taiwan), Chung-Chi Su (Taipei, Taiwan) and Zhang-Jian Huang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for processing a waste fabric containing polyester and cotton fibers includes the following steps. The first step is providing a plurality of fabric scraps each containing polyester fibers and cotton fibers. The next step is allowing an acid catalyst aqueous solution to repeatedly contact and rea...