ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,824, issued on March 18, was assigned to NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE (Tsubaka, Japan) and NIPPON ZOKI PHARMACEUTICAL Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Nonwoven fabric, method for manufacturing same, and composition for electrospinning" was invented by Koichiro Uto (Tsukuba, Japan), Mitsuhiro Ebara (Tsukuba, Japan), Mitsuru Naiki (Kato, Japan), Takafumi Konishi (Osaka, Japan) and Hitoshi Yamamoto (Ono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-woven fabric including fibers including an aliphatic polyester that has at least two maximum values in a molecular weight distribution thereof, wherein the fibers have a fiber diameter fa...