ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,117, issued on April 14, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Method of controlling sheet manufacturing apparatus" was invented by Keisuke Miyauchi (Matsumoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet manufacturing apparatus includes a transport portion that transports a web formed of a material containing fibers, a humidifier that humidifies the web with air mixed with water supplied from a tank, a heating roller that is positioned downstream of the humidifier and that forms a sheet from the web, a moisture meter that is positioned between the humidifier and the heating roller and that measures a moisture amount in the w...