US Patent Issued to FIRST QUALITY TISSUE on Jan. 27 for "Wet laid paper and paperboard products with high wet strength and method of making the same" (South Carolina, Delaware Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,854, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to FIRST QUALITY TISSUE LLC (Great Neck, N.Y.).

"Wet laid paper and paperboard products with high wet strength and method of making the same" was invented by James E. Sealey II (Belton, S.C.), Kevin P. Brennan (Anderson, S.C.), Justin S. Pence (Anderson, S.C.), Richard James Riehle (Wilmington, Del.) and Daniel Mark Henn (Wilmington, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making paper and paperboard products, including absorbent structures, where the method includes mixing ultra-high molecular weight ("UHMW") glyoxalated polyvinylamide ("GPVM") adducts and high molecular weight ("HMW") an...