US Patent Issued to OPTIMA consumer on June 23 for "Method for producing shaped products from a plurality of paper layers arranged one above another" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,776, issued on June 23, was assigned to OPTIMA consumer GmbH (Schwabisch Hall, Germany).

"Method for producing shaped products from a plurality of paper layers arranged one above another" was invented by Jens Scafarti (Sundern, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing shaped products from multi-layer paper dispenses with subsequent drying steps and still allows entirely compostable shaped products to be produced that, in terms of their shape, are not limited to flat angles between flat regions. A corresponding shaped product made of paper and to a device for carrying out the method are disclosed."

The patent was...