ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,231, issued on June 2, was assigned to DIAGEO GREAT BRITAIN Ltd. (London).
"Mould for forming a unitary article from pulp" was invented by Adam Richard Turner (Toft, Great Britain), Natasha Wilson (Toft, Great Britain), Joshua Lanzon-Miller (Toft, Great Britain) and Jonathan Morris (Toft, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mould (14) for forming an article from a fibre suspension. The mould includes an insert with a cavity (27) in the negative shape of an article to be formed and two regions of different porosity/permeability (28, 29) about the cavity (27). In use the mould communicates a suspending fluid of the fibre susp...