US Patent Issued to Kimberly-Clark Worldwide on June 9 for "System and method for building a roll of material" (Wisconsin, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,639, issued on June 9, was assigned to Kimberly-Clark Worldwide Inc. (Neenah, Wis.).

"System and method for building a roll of material" was invented by Paul L. Bartocci (New Milford, Conn.), Robert E. Krautkramer Jr. (Combined Locks, Wis.) and Vivek Moreshwar Karandikar (Neenah, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A web winding process is disclosed for controlling one or more characteristics of a web of material being wound into a roll. In one aspect, the system includes a weighing platform that weighs the roll of material as the roll of material is building. From this information, a basis weight characteristic of the web is determin...