US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on April 21 for "Fiber processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,940, issued on April 21, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Fiber processing method" was invented by Hideaki Mizuhashi (Chino, Japan), Hideki Kojima (Matsumoto, Japan), Hideki Tanaka (Chino, Japan) and Masahiko Nakazawa (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fiber processing method includes performing defibration processing on a coarse fragment of a fabric containing a thread in which a plurality of fibers are twisted to produce a first defibrated material; and performing garnetting processing on the first defibrated material to produce a second defibrated material. The fiber processing method may further includ...