US Patent Issued to UT-BATTELLE, FIBERLEAN TECHNOLOGIES on Oct. 21 for "Surface-modified and dried microfibrillated cellulose reinforced thermoplastic biocomposites" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,512, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to UT-BATTELLE LLC (Oak Ridge, Tenn.) and FIBERLEAN TECHNOLOGIES Ltd. (Par, Great Britain).

"Surface-modified and dried microfibrillated cellulose reinforced thermoplastic biocomposites" was invented by Soydan Ozcan (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Kai Li (Knoxville, Tenn.), Halil Tekinalp (Knoxville, Tenn.), Xianhui Zhao (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Jon Phipps (Gorran Haven, Great Britain) and Sean Ireland (Hampden, Maine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for producing dried, vinyl carboxylate surface-modified microfibrillated cellulose having improved mechanical properties and a microfibril structure and a pro...