ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,966, issued on March 4, was assigned to Daio Paper Corp. (Ehime, Japan).

"Cellulose fiber composite recycled resin and production method therefor" was invented by Yu Ochiai (Ehime, Japan), Ikko Matsusue (Ehime, Japan) and Junya Okawa (Ehime, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cellulose fiber composite recycled resin having excellent strength, and a method for producing the same. The cellulose fiber composite recycled resin contains a recycled resin and a mixture of fibrous cellulose, at least one of resin powders and resin pellets, and at least one substance selected from the group consisting of phthalic acid, phthalates, derivat...