US Patent Issued to ADERANS, CRANE on July 28 for "Fiber for artificial hairs, artificial hair, method for producing fiber for artificial hairs, and method for producing artificial hair" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,634, issued on July 28, was assigned to ADERANS Co. LTD. (Tokyo) and CRANE INC. (Yamagata, Japan).

"Fiber for artificial hairs, artificial hair, method for producing fiber for artificial hairs, and method for producing artificial hair" was invented by Masatoshi Seki (Tokyo), Hideki Takahashi (Tokyo), Ren Ito (Tsuruoka, Japan) and Yunosuke Abe (Tsuruoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a fiber for artificial hairs that is given a predetermined shape, the fiber being formed from a synthetic fibroin fiber containing a modified fibroin, and the fiber expanding when placed in a wet state and contracting when dried from a...