ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,961, issued on June 3, was assigned to INNOTECH ALBERTA INC. (Edmonton, Canada).

"Cellulose particle mold release layer" was invented by Tridung Ngo (Edmonton, Canada), David Bilyk (Edmonton, Canada) and Siguo Chen (Edmonton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A product and method comprising a cellulose based release layer. The cellulose release layer comprising cellulose particles having at least one dimension in the nanoscale range. The cellulose release layer being between a mold surface and moldable mixture surface during a molding process. The method comprising releasing a moldable mixture from a mold where the moldable mixtur...