US Patent Issued to MONOSOL on July 28 for "Water soluble fibers with post process modifications and articles containing same" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,650, issued on July 28, was assigned to MONOSOL LLC (Merrillville, Ind.).

"Water soluble fibers with post process modifications and articles containing same" was invented by Victoria Bridewell (Merrillville, Ind.), Nicholas Zeese (Merrillville, Ind.), Richard Goetz (Merrillville, Ind.), Jonathon Knight (Merrillville, Ind.) and Alyssa Shuey (Merrillville, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of treating a fiber includes admixing a fiber comprising a polymer comprising at least one of a vinyl acetate moiety or a vinyl alcohol moiety and having a degree of hydrolysis less than 100% with a hydrolysis agent solution to form a mixt...