ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,018, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Chan Li Machinery Co. Ltd. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Embossing apparatus for producing fluffy multilayer web product" was invented by Yi-Hsiu Lu (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embossing apparatus for producing a fluffy multilayer web product includes a first embossing assembly that forms a first embossed pattern on a first web product and a second embossing assembly that forms a second embossed pattern on a second web product. The first web product is humidified by a first humidifying device before being conveyed to the first web product embossing assembly, and the second web prod...