ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,183, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Sheet manufacturing apparatus and sheet manufacturing method" was invented by Keisuke Miyauchi (Nagano, Japan) and Akira Hashimoto (Nagano, 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 transports the web in a first direction; a humidification section that humidifies the web; and a pressurization section that pressurizes the web humidified by the humidification section and compresses the web i...