US Patent Issued to Georgia-Pacific Corrugated on Feb. 17 for "Starch-based padded material, padded mailers and methods of making the same" (Georgia, Arizona, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,145, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Georgia-Pacific Corrugated LLC (Atlanta).

"Starch-based padded material, padded mailers and methods of making the same" was invented by Andrew Geoffrey Halcomb (Johns Creek, Ga.), Gary Norman Boettcher (Juliette, Ga.), Anand Viswanath (Marietta, Ga.), Marc Gerald Zanghi (Atlanta), Joseph Duncan (Nacogdoches, Texas) and Thomas Lucas (Goodyear, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Padded materials and corresponding systems and methods for forming the same are provided herein. A padded material comprises a first web of paper-based material defining a first and a second surface, and a second web of...