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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2013
William B. Carlson, Seattle, WA (US);
Gregory D. Phelan, Cortland, NY (US);
Philip A. Sullivan, Seattle, WA (US);
William B. Carlson, Seattle, WA (US);
Gregory D. Phelan, Cortland, NY (US);
Philip A. Sullivan, Seattle, WA (US);
EMPIRE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT LLC, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
A cleaning system can include a noble gas, and one or more vessels configured to convert the noble gas into a supercritical fluid, and/or receive and clean an article of manufacture with the noble gas in the supercritical fluid state. A cleaning process can include converting a noble gas into a supercritical fluid state; and cleaning an article of manufacture with the noble gas in the supercritical fluid state so as to remove one or more contaminants from the article of manufacture. A cleaning composition can include a noble gas in a supercritical fluid state, and a textile article of manufacture having one or more contaminants located in the supercritical noble gas.