US Patent Issued to Kimberly-Clark Worldwide on Oct. 27 for "Coform material with staple fibers and process for forming coform materials" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,544, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Kimberly-Clark Worldwide Inc. (Neenah, Wis.).

"Coform material with staple fibers and process for forming coform materials" was invented by Allen Vater (Alpharetta, Ga.), Juha Kemppinen (Cumming, Ga.), Doug Gorman (Cumming, Ga.), Bryan D. Haynes (Jasper, Ga.), Simon Poruthoor (Alpharetta, Ga.), Karen Goeders (Atlanta), Jeffrey Krueger (Roswell, Ga.), Scott Snowden (Canton, Ga.), Rebecca Griffin (Woodstock, Ga.) and David J. Trebatoski (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coform material is provided including a nonwoven web containing a mixture of staple fibers and an absorbent material inc...