US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on April 21 for "Method for separating and recovering super-absorbent polymers (SAP) from post-consumer absorbent sanitary products" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,752, issued on April 21, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Method for separating and recovering super-absorbent polymers (SAP) from post-consumer absorbent sanitary products" was invented by Nicola D'Alessio (Spoltore, Italy) and Tonino Caruso (Spoltore, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for separating a fraction of super-absorbent polymers (SAP) from post-consumer absorbent sanitary products, said post-consumer absorbent sanitary products further including at least one cellulose fraction and one plastic fraction. The method includes the steps of sterilizing the post-consumer absorbent sanitary prod...