US Patent Issued to AUROTEC on Sept. 15 for "Thin-layer treatment device" (Austrian, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,463, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to AUROTEC GMBH (Regau, Austria).

"Thin-layer treatment device" was invented by Stefan Zikeli (Regau, Austria), Hannes Kitzler (Timelkam, Austria), Philipp Zauner (Vocklabruck, Austria), Paul Aigner (Lenzing, Austria), Michael Longin (Bad Mitterndorf, Austria) and Rainer Naef (Dietikon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a cellulose solution with a solvent from a cellulose suspension in the solvent and a volatile non-solvent, including the introduction of the suspension into an inlet of a thin-film treatment apparatus, application and distribution of the suspension...