ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,562, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Yangi AB (Varberg, Sweden).

"Method and apparatus for dry manufacturing rigid cellulose products" was invented by Maria Englander (Lindome, Sweden) and Anna Altner (Veddinge, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for dry manufacturing rigid cellulose products having an essentially non-flat general shape from cellulose fibres comprising the steps of: providing a quantity of separated cellulose fibres from a dry cellulose raw material in at least one separating unit, providing the separated cellulose fibres onto a support structure for forming a cellulose blank, producing the rigid cellu...