Patent 7514552 was granted and assigned to Asahi Kasei on April, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A cellulose powder which has an average degree of polymerization of 150 to 450, an average particle diameter of 30 to 250 μm, an apparent specific volume exceeding 7 cm3/g, and a retention of polyethylene glycol having a molecular weight of 400 to 190% or higher.