US Patent Issued to NATIONAL AGRICULTURE AND FOOD RESEARCH ORGANIZATION, KOWA on Sept. 9 for "Apparatus for producing a bagworm silk thread, and method of producing long bagworm silk thread" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,643, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to NATIONAL AGRICULTURE AND FOOD RESEARCH ORGANIZATION (Tsukuba, Japan) and KOWA COMPANY LTD. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Apparatus for producing a bagworm silk thread, and method of producing long bagworm silk thread" was invented by Taiyo Yoshioka (Tsukuba, Japan), Tsunenori Kameda (Tsukuba, Japan), Takahiro Kitamura (Tsukuba, Japan) and Akimune Asanuma (Tsukuba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method of efficiently producing a long bagworm silk thread containing no contaminant while preventing a change in the spinning direction and the runaway of the bagworm from a rail, and alleviat...