ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,746, issued on May 19, was assigned to Billerud Aktiebolag (publ) (Solna, Sweden).

"Paper product for flow wrapping" was invented by Thomas Gillgren (Orebro, Sweden) and Johan Larsson (Gavle, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a coated paper product for use in a flow wrapping process, wherein: -said coated paper product comprises a paper substrate; -said paper substrate is a machine-glazed (MG) kraft paper having a glazed side and a non-glazed side; -said non-glazed side is coated with a precoating layer and a barrier coating layer; -said precoating layer comprises a polymeric binder and a pigment; a...