ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,898, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Daio Paper Corp. (Ehime, Japan).

"Fibrous cellulose, fibrous cellulose composite resin, and method for preparing fibrous cellulose" was invented by Takaaki Imai (Ehime, Japan) and Yu Ochiai (Ehime, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fibrous cellulose highly capable of reinforcing resins, fibrous cellulose composite resins with high strength, and a method for preparing fibrous cellulose highly capable of reinforcing resins. The fibrous cellulose has an average fiber width of less than=0.1 micro metre, and has hydroxyl groups partially/fully substituted with carbamate groups at the substitution...