US Patent Issued to Footprint International on Aug. 11 for "Systems and methods for web-fed dry forming of fiber-based products" (Arizona, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,166, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Footprint International LLC (Gilbert, Ariz.).

"Systems and methods for web-fed dry forming of fiber-based products" was invented by Yoke Chung (Gilbert, Ariz.), Yiyun Zhang (Chandler, Ariz.), David France (Minneapolis), Todd Biggs (Queen Creek, Ariz.) and Steven Roach (Gilbert, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods and systems for production of fiber-based, plastic-free products are produced by a web-fed dry forming process. In some embodiments, a method of manufacturing a paper-based packaging product includes conditioning a paper web to optimize a moisture content of the ...