US Patent Issued to LIGNUM on April 1 for "Method for preparation of antibacterial bio-filler for plastic and antibacterial bio-filler for plastic prepared thereby" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,222, issued on April 1, was assigned to LIGNUM INC. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method for preparation of antibacterial bio-filler for plastic and antibacterial bio-filler for plastic prepared thereby" was invented by Sang-Hyun Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method for preparing an antibacterial bio-filler for plastics and an antibacterial bio-filler for plastics, prepared thereby. More specifically a method for preparing an oleophilic antibacterial bio-filler for plastics from hydrophilic lignocellulosic biomass and an antibacterial bio-filler for plastics prepared thereby are provided."...