ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,814, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Tokuyama Corp. (Shunan, Japan).
"Waste photovoltaic module processing method" was invented by Masaru Sasai (Hokkaido, Japan) and Takeharu Yamashita (Hokkaido, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This waste photovoltaic module processing method is a method of continuously treating a waste photovoltaic module. The method includes a heating step of heating a photovoltaic module having a resin back sheet, etc. in a thermal decomposition furnace to melt and oxidatively decompose resin components included in the photovoltaic module, in which the heating step is performed by moving the photovoltaic m...