ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,992, issued on July 1, was assigned to OHOSKIN s.r.l. [IT/IT] (Catania, Italy).
"Synthetic leather of vegetable origin" was invented by Adriana Santanocito (Viale Vittorio, Italy) and Roberto Merighi (Fratta Polesine, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to a synthetic leather preparation, said process includes the following steps: a. to extract a powder from a vegetal source having a volumetric average diameter particles lower than 40 micro metre, humidity content lower than 10% in weight, lignin content higher than 30% in weight on the dry residue, and fiber NDF content higher to 85% in weight measu...