ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,441, issued on April 22, was assigned to EVRNU, SPC (Seattle).

"Methods and systems for forming composite fibers" was invented by Stacy Flynn (Seattle) and Christopher Stanev (Rutherford, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems of the present invention use cellulose-containing materials, which may include post-consumer waste garments, scrap fabric and/or various biomass materials as a raw feed material to produce isolated cellulose molecules that can be used in the textile and apparel industries, and in other industries. A multi-stage process is provided, in which cellulose-containing feed material is subjected to one ...