US Patent Issued to TORAY INDUSTRIES on May 20 for "Feather separation system and feather separation method, and method for producing recycled feathers" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,943, issued on May 20, was assigned to TORAY INDUSTRIES Inc. (Tokyo).

"Feather separation system and feather separation method, and method for producing recycled feathers" was invented by Naoki Oka (Otsu, Japan) and Tamotsu Suzuki (Otsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a feather separation system for separating feathers from a product in which feathers are filled into a bag-shaped product of a covering. The feather separation system includes: a cutting part configured to cut the product into individual pieces so that at least a part of the bag-shaped product of the covering is open; a feather separation part configur...