ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,387, issued on March 31, was assigned to DAICEL Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Cellulose acetate band, and method for producing cellulose acetate band" was invented by Kazuma Oguni (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The problem to be solved by the present invention is to prevent interruption of a cellulose acetate fiber during spinning of the cellulose acetate fiber thereby enhancing production efficiency of a cellulose acetate band. The cellulose acetate band according to an embodiment of the present invention is formed from cellulose acetate fibers, a total denier thereof is set to a value in a range from 8000 to 44000, a content of ti...