US Patent Issued to First Quality Tissue on Feb. 17 for "Absorbent structures with high strength and low MD stretch" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,189, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to First Quality Tissue LLC (Great Neck, N.Y.).

"Absorbent structures with high strength and low MD stretch" was invented by James E. Sealey II (Belton, S.C.), Justin S. Pence (Anderson, S.C.), Marc Paul Begin (Simpsonville, S.C.), Zachary Korkowski (Greenville, S.C.) and Byrd Tyler Miller IV (Easley, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Absorbent product including a laminate of at least two plies, wherein the absorbent product has a measured Y-Connected Area parameter greater than 20 and a Surface Channel Spacing of less than 2.5 mm. The absorbent product has high strength and low machine directio...