US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on Sept. 2 for "Fibrous body processing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,633, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Fibrous body processing apparatus" was invented by Jun Sakurada (Nagano, Japan), Makoto Sato (Nagano, Japan), Koji Motohashi (Nagano, Japan), Karen Hasebe (Nagano, Japan), Toshihiko Yamazaki (Nagano, Japan) and Takashi Abe (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fibrous body processing apparatus includes a coarsely-crushed-pieces reservoir unit; a humidifying unit that generates humidified air and supplies the humidified air to the coarsely-crushed-pieces reservoir unit; a weight measurement unit that measures a weight of the coarsely crushed pieces let out o...