US Patent Issued to Kimberly-Clark Worldwide on Nov. 3 for "Creped tissue products having a cross-machine direction oriented pattern" (British, Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,438, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Kimberly-Clark Worldwide Inc. (Neenah, Wis.).

"Creped tissue products having a cross-machine direction oriented pattern" was invented by Tsutama Satake Neto (Mogi das Cruzes, Brazil), Patricia Camara Mileo (Sao Paulo), Jorge A. Duran (Sao Paulo), Paul D. Bradford (Aylesford, Great Britain) and Peter Carson (Ulverston, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Tissue products, particularly creped, wet-pressed tissue products, having improved physical properties such as a high caliper and a low degree of stiffness are provided. The products are manufactured by molding the nascent tissue web to t...