US Patent Issued to Kimberly-Clark Worldwide on Sept. 1 for "Soft treated tissue product" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,354, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Kimberly-Clark Worldwide Inc. (Neenah, Wis.).

"Soft treated tissue product" was invented by Thomas J. Dyer (Neenah, Wis.), Kelly A. Balzereit (Appleton, Wis.), Angela A. Wei (Appleton, Wis.), David J. Verbael (Neenah, Wis.) and Sharon L. Famuliner (Neenah, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides multi-ply creped tissue products, and in particular embodiments creped wet-pressed tissue products, having substantially higher per-ply basis weights, such as from about 14.0 grams per square meter or greater. Despite having relatively high per-ply basis weights, the products ...