US Patent Issued to Georgia Tech Research on July 7 for "Treating cellulosic materials and methods of making treated cellulosic materials" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,443, issued on July 7, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Treating cellulosic materials and methods of making treated cellulosic materials" was invented by Mark D. Losego (Atlanta), Shawn Alan Gregory (Atlanta) and Shannon K. Yee (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of modifying properties of a cellulosic material include depositing an additive onto the cellulosic material, the additive being in a vapor phase and configured to modify one or more properties of the cellulosic material and adsorbing the additive into the cellulosic material, wherein the additive reacts with one or more functional groups of...