ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,712, issued on March 25, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Sheet manufacturing system" was invented by Takao Mikoshiba (Nagano, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet manufacturing system includes a coarsely crushing apparatus that coarsely crushes a paper; a sheet manufacturing apparatus that generates a sheet-shaped recycled paper using coarsely crushed pieces of the paper as a raw material; and a server that is connected to the coarsely crushing apparatus and the sheet manufacturing apparatus via a network, in which the sheet manufacturing apparatus has a reserving section that reserves the coarsely crushed pieces...