ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,658, issued on July 28, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method of controlling sheet manufacturing apparatus" was invented by Yoshikazu Nagai (Matsumoto, Japan), Akira Hashimoto (Shiojiri, Japan), Tetsuya Tamura (Matsumoto, Japan) and Naoto Aruga (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a sheet manufacturing apparatus is applied to a sheet manufacturing apparatus including a defibrating portion, an accumulating portion that forms web, a second transporting portion that includes a transporting belt to transport the web, and a pressing portion that includes a pair of pressing rollers formed fr...