B29B 17/02
Separating plastics from other materials
B29B17/02 (Separating plastics from other materials) appears on 1,629 US grants and 1,732 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B29B- Granted patents
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- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2025 | 93 | 150 |
| 2026 | 61 | 132 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Efficient material recovery facility29 Sep 2026US 12,746,581 B2AMP Robotics Corporation
- Plastics processing and plastics recovery facility29 Sep 2026US 12,746,710 B2Wm Intellectual Property Holdings, L.L.C.
- Combined washing/delamination process for multilayer film-containing recycling streams29 Sep 2026US 12,747,331 B2Borealis AG
- System and process for converting waste plastic into a usable product22 Sep 2026US 12,742,052 B2
- Textile article and method for the production and disassembly of a textile article15 Sep 2026US 12,735,835 B2Regeneration Bvba
- Coating film removing device and coating film removing method1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295928 A1Toray Industries, Inc.
- Color getters for color removal in solvent-based plastic recycling1 Oct 2026US 2026/0297281 A1Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
- Recovering polymer from three-dimensional printed objects1 Oct 2026US 2026/0297282 A1Peridot Print LLC
- Reducing surface and bulk contamination in plastic24 Sep 2026US 2026/0284550 A1The Procter & Gamble Company
- Volumetric additive manufacturing using cycloolefin resins24 Sep 2026US 2026/0284965 A1The Regents of the University of California
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and device for sorting materials142US 5,794,788 A1998
- Apparatus and method for sorting post-consumer articles according to PVC content120US 5,419,438 ASimco/Ramic Corporation · 1995
- Carpet and techniques for making and recycling same113US 5,240,530 ATennessee Valley Performance Products, Inc. · 1993
- Process for recycling mixed polymer containing polyethylene terephthalate107US 5,554,657 AShell Oil Company · 1996
- Recycling of plastics in a steam cracker107US 5,731,483 ABASF SE · 1998