creator Bridges, Jack E. creator Sresty, Guggilam C. creator Held, Jeffery S. creator Sharp, James W. creator Bajzek, Thomas J. Infectious medical materials is rendered innocuous by heating heterogeneous medical materials having wet and dry portions with a radio frequency electric field. The medical materials are exposed to the radio frequency electric field in order to heat the medical waste. The medical waste may include sorted medical or veterinary waste which after heat treatment may be shredded and recycled. Submitted by Aric Ahrens (ahrens@iit.edu) on 2011-12-07T18:02:59Z No. of bitstreams: 1 5476634.pdf: 660812 bytes, checksum: 69694f0b3cb23760ce1b16e35e2e8873 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2011-12-07T18:02:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 5476634.pdf: 660812 bytes, checksum: 69694f0b3cb23760ce1b16e35e2e8873 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1995-12-19 IIT Research Institute Held, Jeffery S. Sharp, James W. 2009-05-11 1995-12-19 5,476,634 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/2386 en United States Patent Patent reformatted digital application/pdf No Copyright - United States http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/ Open Access