US Patent Issued to Continuus Materials Intellectual Property on Nov. 3 for "Rapidly heating and cooling composite mats comprised of cellulose and thermoplastic polymer" (Illinois, California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,746, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Continuus Materials Intellectual Property LLC (The Woodlands, Texas).

"Rapidly heating and cooling composite mats comprised of cellulose and thermoplastic polymer" was invented by Jack G. Winterowd (Puyallup, Wash.), Matthew Spencer (Palatine, Ill.) and Marko Suput (Lompoc, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a composite board includes compressing and heating a composite mat between opposing hot-platens, the composite mat including plastic, cellulose, and water, applying, with the opposing hot-platens, pressure within a target pressure range to the composite mat for a fir...