US Patent Issued to Kao on July 8 for "Electrospinning apparatus and system and method thereof" (British, American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,947, issued on July 8, was assigned to Kao Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electrospinning apparatus and system and method thereof" was invented by Hirokatsu Sugawara (Cincinnati), Shinji Kodama (Inage-ku, Japan), Michael Edward Philip Russell (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain), Carl Gordon Hewett (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain) and Joe Antony Williams (Haverhill, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable, hand-held electrospinning or electrospraying apparatus and system, method, and portions thereof, comprised of a durable portion of the hand-held apparatus and a consumable portion of the hand-held apparatus. The consumable portion of the...