ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,597, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to ESSITY HYGIENE AND HEALTH AKTIEBOLAG (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Coreless rolls of a tissue paper product and methods of manufacturing coreless rolls" was invented by Nicolas Weisang (Kunheim, France), Sebastien Jeannot (Kunheim, France) and Benoit Arnoul-Jarriault (Kunheim, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coreless roll of a tissue paper product has a first end and a second end, and a web of tissue paper product being wound such as to define a central inner hole with the first end located on the outer side and the second end located at the inner hole, the product including a bonded first ply a...