US Patent Issued to First Quality Tissue on May 13 for "Wet laid disposable absorbent structures with high wet strength and method of making the same" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,598, issued on May 13, was assigned to First Quality Tissue LLC (Great Neck, N.Y.).

"Wet laid disposable absorbent structures 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: "A method of making an absorbent structure including mixing ultra-high molecular weight ("UHMW") glyoxalated polyvinylamide adducts ("GPVM") and/or high molecular weight ("HMW"), glyoxalated polyacrylamide and/or high cationic charge glyoxalated polyacrylamide ("GPAM") copolymers and high molecular weight ("H...