ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,618, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Zelfo Technology GmbH (Brandenburg, Germany).

"Apparatus and method for the preparation, processing of fibre mixtures and forming products therefrom" was invented by Richard Hurding (Brandenburg, Germany) and Gregoire Leveque de Vilmorin (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention to which this application relates is apparatus and a method for use in the preconditioning, processing of a material mixture and forming of end products from the processed material mixture which includes fibres such as cellulose fibres so as to allow the end products including the same to be formed in an effi...