ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,613, issued on March 25, was assigned to NIPPON FIBER Corp. (Abiko, Japan).

"Flake-like composition and flake-like composition production method" was invented by Hiroshi Fukazawa (Abiko, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The purpose of the present invention is to provide: a flake-like composition that enables effective use of the waste discharged from a coal-fueled thermal power plant; and a method for producing said flake-like composition. This flake-like composition is characterized by containing, as a raw material, waste discharged from a coal-fueled thermal power plant."

The patent was filed on July 30, 2021, under Applicati...