US Patent Issued to Spiber on Sept. 30 for "Water-absorbing and quick-drying property-imparting agent, and method for imparting water-absorbing and quick-drying properties" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,454, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Spiber Inc. (Tsuruoka, Japan).

"Water-absorbing and quick-drying property-imparting agent, and method for imparting water-absorbing and quick-drying properties" was invented by Hiroaki Suzumura (Tsuruoka, Japan) and Yui Hirose (Tsuruoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a water-absorbing and quick-drying property-imparting agent capable of easily imparting water-absorbing and quick-drying properties to various materials or articles in a simple process, and a method capable of easily imparting water-absorbing and quick-drying properties to predetermined materials or articles.A ...