US Patent Issued to KURARAY on July 15 for "Low leachable fibers and fiber structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,347, issued on July 15, was assigned to KURARAY Co. LTD. (Kurashiki, Japan).

"Low leachable fibers and fiber structure" was invented by Satoshi Koizumi (Kurashiki, Japan), Akihiro Uehata (Sakai, Japan) and Tetsuya Tomosugi (Kurashiki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fiber including olefin-based resin, wherein temperatures of the olefin-based resin losing five percent by weight and the fiber losing five percent by weight have a difference of 20 degrees Celsius or below according to thermogravimetric measurements."

The patent was filed on July 25, 2023, under Application No. 18/358,307.

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