ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,115, issued on April 14, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Sheet manufacturing apparatus and sheet manufacturing method" was invented by Keisuke Miyauchi (Matsumoto, Japan), Akira Hashimoto (Shiojiri, Japan) and Naoto Aruga (Matsumoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a sheet manufacturing apparatus including: an accumulation section that accumulates a material containing fibers by an air flow to form a web; a transport section that performs transport; a humidification section that performs humidification; and a pressurization section that performs pressurization and compression into a sheet shape, wi...