US Patent Issued to Kuraray on May 26 for "Creping adhesive, powder for use as creping adhesive, method for producing creping adhesive, and toilet paper, tissue paper, paper towel, kitchen paper, or napkin base paper" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,596, issued on May 26, was assigned to Kuraray Co. Ltd. (Okayama, Japan).

"Creping adhesive, powder for use as creping adhesive, method for producing creping adhesive, and toilet paper, tissue paper, paper towel, kitchen paper, or napkin base paper" was invented by Yuta Taoka (Houston) and Misuzu Fujimori (Kurashiki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a creping adhesive that is favorable in a thread-forming property, wet adhesiveness, and the like. A creping adhesive contains a PVA (A), wherein at least one of (i) and (ii) below is satisfied. (i) The PVA (A) includes a PVA having a minimum degree of branching of 0.25 or ...