US Patent Issued to Metsa Fibre on Feb. 17 for "Dispersion of cellulose fibers and method of producing the same" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,187, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Metsa Fibre Oy (Metsa, Finland).

"Dispersion of cellulose fibers and method of producing the same" was invented by Lauri Hauru (Helsingin yliopisto, Finland), Ilkka Kilpelainen (Helsingin yliopisto, Finland), Olli Suontausta (Metsa, Finland) and Alexander Deutschle (Metsa, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dispersion of cellulose fibers, a method of preparing the same and uses thereof. The dispersion is produced by providing a cellulose feedstock comprising cellulose fibers; by providing a mixture of an ionic liquid and a protic antisolvent for cellulose as a dispersion medium, the ionic...