US Patent Issued to Furanwood, KYOTO PREFECTURAL PUBLIC UNIVERSITY on July 1 for "Method for producing modified wood-based material, furan derivative resinification solution, and modified wood-based material" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,896, issued on July 1, was assigned to Furanwood Co. Ltd. (Okayama, Japan) and KYOTO PREFECTURAL PUBLIC UNIVERSITY Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Method for producing modified wood-based material, furan derivative resinification solution, and modified wood-based material" was invented by Takafumi Itoh (Kyoto, Japan), Hisashi Miyafuji (Kyoto, Japan), Yuzo Furuta (Kyoto, Japan), Keisuke Kojiro (Kyoto, Japan), Hiroaki Horiyama (Kyoto, Japan), Yukari Otsuka (Kyoto, Japan), Fujio Ohara (Tsuyama, Japan), Hiroki Ito (Tsuyama, Japan) and Yoshiko Yamazaki (Tsuyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing a wood-based material that i...