US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Nov. 4 for "Continuous and discontinuous fibers, yarn, fabrics and composites using short natural fibers and fibrils" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,323, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Continuous and discontinuous fibers, yarn, fabrics and composites using short natural fibers and fibrils" was invented by Mohammad Hamza Kirmani (Troy, Mich.), Bradley Allen Newcomb (Troy, Mich.) and Xiaosong Huang (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing at least one of fibers and yarn from natural fibers includes providing at least one of technical fibers, elementary fibers, meso fibrils, and micro fibrils. Greater than or equal to 80% of the at least one of the technical fibers, the elementary fibers, the meso fibril...