ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,738, issued on March 3, was assigned to Mondi AG (Vienna).

"Pallet outer packaging paper" was invented by Lars Goran Berglund (Sundsvall, Sweden) and Elisabeth Schwaiger (St. Stefan, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pallet outer packaging paper, to an outer packaging method using this pallet outer packaging paper as an outer packaging material, and to a method for producing such a pallet outer packaging paper. The pallet outer packaging paper comprises at least 70 wt. % cellulose fibres having a length-weighted average fibre length in accordance with ISO 16065-2:2014 of 1.8 mm to 2.8 mm, and has a bending stiffness in accorda...