US Patent Issued to First Quality Tissue on March 31 for "Wet laid paper and paperboard products with high wet strength and method of making the same" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,413, issued on March 31, 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.) and Justin S. Pence (Anderson, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An absorbent retail paper product made up of cellulose fibers, and having a 1,3-dichloro-2-propanol concentration of non-detected amounts to 50 ppb as measured using the AOAC Official Method 2000.0150, a 3-monochloro-1,2 propanediol concentration of non-detected amounts to 1000 ppb as measured using the AOA...