ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,417, issued on March 31, 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) and Sebastien Jeannot (Kunheim, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coreless roll of a tissue paper product has first and second ends, a web of absorbent material being wound to define an axially extending inner hole centrally positioned relative to the coreless roll, the product including at least two plies, at least one of which being an embossed ply, and the coreless roll having an outer diame...