US Patent Issued to NIPPON SHOKUBAI on June 16 for "Method for recycling water absorbent resin" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,151, issued on June 16, was assigned to NIPPON SHOKUBAI Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Method for recycling water absorbent resin" was invented by Kazuki Kimura (Himeji, Japan) and Nobuhiro Kobayashi (Himeji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for recycling a water-absorbing resin which contains absorbed liquid, with consideration for a resource aspect and an energy aspect. The method for recycling a water-absorbing resin which contains absorbed liquid includes: discharging the absorbed liquid from the water-absorbing resin which contains the absorbed liquid; and recovering a water-absorbing power of the water-absor...