US Patent Issued to UNIVERSIDAD DE LA FRONTERA on Feb. 17 for "Granulated additive based on textile fibres from end-of-life tyres (ELT), tyre powder and asphalt binder and method for obtaining the product and use" (Chilean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,917, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to UNIVERSIDAD DE LA FRONTERA (Temuco, Chile).

"Granulated additive based on textile fibres from end-of-life tyres (ELT), tyre powder and asphalt binder and method for obtaining the product and use" was invented by Gonzalo Alfonso Valdes Vidal (Temuco, Chile), Luis Alejandro Mardones Parra (Temuco, Chile) and Alejandra Tatiana Calabi Flood (Temuco, Chile).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solution to the two major problems that exist today, on the one hand, by recovering the textile fibers extracted from the recycling and Processing of ELTs and, on the other hand, by providing the asphalt paving ind...