creator Bridges, Jack E. creator Sresty, Guggilam C. creator Held, Jeffery S. creator Sharp, James W. creator Bajzek, Thomas J. Infectious medical materials are rendered harmless by heating heterogeneous medical materials having wet and dry portions with a radio-frequency electric field. The medical materials may be comminuted prior to heating. The medical materials are exposed to the radio-frequency electric field in order to heat the medical materials. The medical materials may include sorted medical or veterinary waste which after heat treatment may be recycled. Submitted by Aric Ahrens (ahrens@iit.edu) on 2011-12-07T18:11:18Z No. of bitstreams: 1 5543111.pdf: 797855 bytes, checksum: f66be6fcbcd7b5800d646fb7a149a5e2 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2011-12-07T18:11:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 5543111.pdf: 797855 bytes, checksum: f66be6fcbcd7b5800d646fb7a149a5e2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1996-08-06 IIT Research Institute 2009-05-11 1996-08-06 5,543,111 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/2389 en United States Patent Patent reformatted digital application/pdf No Copyright - United States http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/ Open Access