ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,199, issued on May 5, was assigned to CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS (CSIC) (Madrid).

"Method for obtaining reinforced packaging paper" was invented by Nuria Gomez Hernandez (Madrid), Priscilla Valeska Vergara Alarcon (Madrid) and Juan Carlos Villar Gutierrez (Madrid).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for obtaining a reinforced packaging paper includes applying a residual liquor from the pretreatment of lignocellulosic waste with a water-alcohol mixture to a packaging paper and subsequently drying the paper. The residual liquor has a solid fraction in suspension of 1-70% by weight/volume relative to the total, wit...