US Patent Issued on June 30 for "System and method for fiber cleaning, alignment, and sizing" (Pennsylvania, Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,919, issued on June 30.

"System and method for fiber cleaning, alignment, and sizing" was invented by Robert A. Miller III (New Ringgold, Pa.), Bibb Coleman Beale III (Montgomery, Ala.), John G. Brown (Verbena, Ala.) and Larry T. Sneed (Equality, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanical system and a method of using the system for separating and refining plant fibers are provided. The plant fibers are separated into a bast fiber stream and a hurd stream, each of which may be processed separately to produce a finished bast fiber product and a finished hurd product. The bast fiber stream is processed through a series of unit ope...