ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,184, issued on May 12, was assigned to NORTHSTAR CLEAN TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Delta, Canada).

"Method, process and system for recycling an asphalt-based roofing material" was invented by Terry Alan Charles (Surrey, Canada), Gord Johnson (Delta, Canada) and Barry Diebold (Claresholm, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method, process and system for recycling an asphalt-based roofing material. In particular, the method, process and system are capable of removing and recovering an aggregate product, fiber product and an asphalt product from the asphalt-based roofing material. The aggregate, fiber and asph...