ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,925, issued on June 30, was assigned to MAFTEC Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Fiber diameter measuring device, inorganic fiber sheet producing device, method for measuring fiber diameter, and method for producing inorganic fiber sheet" was invented by Shinji Shindo (Tokyo), Kazunori Kawahara (Tokyo) and Tetsuji Jonishi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fiber diameter measuring device, an inorganic fiber sheet producing device, a method for measuring a fiber diameter, and a method for producing an inorganic fiber sheet, capable of guaranteeing continuous safeness of the fiber diameter of an inorganic fiber in an inorganic fiber sheet is pro...