ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,578, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Daio Paper Corp. (Ehime, Japan).

"Fibrous cellulose, fibrous cellulose composite resin, and method for manufacturing fibrous cellulose" was invented by Takaaki Imai (Ehime, Japan) and Yu Ochiai (Ehime, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fibrous cellulose has an average fiber width of 0.1 micro metre or more and has a part or all of hydroxyl groups replaced with carbamate groups, in which a replacement ratio with the carbamate group is 1.0 mmol/g or more, and a fine ratio is 30% or more. A fibrous cellulose composite resin contains a fibrous cellulose and a resin, and the above fibrous cellu...