ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,054, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Cellulosic particle" was invented by Kenji Yao (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazusei Yoshida (Kanagawa, Japan), Ayu Naito (Kanagawa, Japan), Shota Matoba (Kanagawa, Japan), Satomi Kashiwagi (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuko Iwadate (Kanagawa, Japan), Masahiro Oki (Kanagawa, Japan), Takahiro Ishizuka (Kanagawa, Japan), Takeshi Iwanaga (Kanagawa, Japan), Hideaki Yoshikawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Tetsuya Taguchi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hirokazu Hamano (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cellulosic particle contains cellulose as its base constituent, and the intensity o...