US Patent Issued to BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM on June 3 for "Handheld/portable apparatus for the production of fine fibers" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,037, issued on June 3, was assigned to BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas).

"Handheld/portable apparatus for the production of fine fibers" was invented by Karen Lozano (McAllen, Texas), Pablo Vidal (McAllen, Texas) and Claudia Cueva (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are portable apparatuses and methods of creating fibers such as microfibers and nanofibers. The methods described herein employ accelerated air to impact fine jets created from polymer solutions going through individual tracks or channels within an exit die. Apparatuses that may be used to create fibers are also de...