ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,523, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to JENACELL GMBH (Jena, Germany).

"Method for producing bacterially synthesized cellulose non-woven" was invented by Dana Kralisch (Jena, Germany), Elena Pfaff (Jena, Germany) and Daniela Rossner (Jena, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for producing bacterially synthesized cellulose (BC) non-woven as well as to BC non-woven produced by the method and uses of such BC non-woven. The present invention also relates to an apparatus for production of the BC non-woven. Preferably, the bacterially synthesized cellulose (BC) of the present invention is biotechn...