ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,841, issued on June 10, was assigned to Soane Materials LLC (Miami).
"Articles of manufacture comprising nanocellulose elements" was invented by David S. Soane (Coral Gables, Fla.), Allison Hope Greene (Reno, Nev.) and Juan Sebastian Colmenares (Reno, Nev.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides formulations comprising a suspension of nanocellulose (NC) elements and a drying/dispersal additive selected from the group consisting of temperature-responsive polymers, small molecule additives in volatile systems, and blocking agents and methods of preparing such formulations, and further provides NC-containing materi...