US Patent Issued to University of Lancaster on Feb. 10 for "Process for tanning animal hide" (British, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,969, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to University of Lancaster (Lancaster, Great Britain).

"Process for tanning animal hide" was invented by Tobias Junginger (Victoria, Canada), Robert Apsimon (Daresbury, Great Britain) and Rebecca Seviour (Huddersfield, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a process for tanning animal hide comprising treating an animal hide with at least one tanning agent and exposing the treated hide to a dose of ionising radiation of from 1 to 500 kJ/kg wherein the ionising radiation is in the form of a charged particle beam."

The patent was filed on Oct. 14, 2020, under Application No....