ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,036, issued on March 31, was assigned to GDM S.P.A. (Bologna, Italy).
"Composite web" was invented by Matteo Piantoni (Bologna, Italy) and Alessandro Zavalloni (Bologna, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite web including a first continuous web having a first face and a second face; the first web includes a molded portion having at least one protrusion, at least partly delimited by a base portion, on the first face; the composite web includes a segment of a second continuous web joined to the second face of the first web at least at the base portion."
The patent was filed on June 29, 2022, under Application No. 17/852,77...