ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,363, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Weidmann Holding AG (Rapperswil, Switzerland).

"Method for producing microscale and/or nanoscale fiber material" was invented by Stefan Truniger (Pfaffikon ZH, Switzerland) and Tobias Wolfinger (Uznach, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for producing microscale and/or nanoscale fiber material. The method has at least the step of dispersing (5) dried pre-comminuted pump in a liquid. The method additionally has a step of finely comminuting (6) the pulp dispersed in the liquid such that a fine comminution mixture is produced which contains the liquid and ...