US Patent Issued to KANEKA on Aug. 18 for "Antibacterial acrylic artificial hair fibers, hair ornament product including same, and method for producing same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,836, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to KANEKA Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Antibacterial acrylic artificial hair fibers, hair ornament product including same, and method for producing same" was invented by Takaaki Kobashi (Takasago, Japan), Akihiro Okamoto (Takasago, Japan) and Takeshi Tanaka (Takasago, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more embodiments of the present invention relate to antibacterial acrylic artificial hair fibers containing chitosan and a nonionic surfactant, in which a content of the chitosan extracted with diluted acetic acid is 0.005% by weight to 0.4% by weight, or the content of the chitosan extracted wit...