US Patent Issued to PIANA NONWOVENS, PERSICO on Sept. 8 for "System and method of manufacturing fiber based articles with steam molding" (Italian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,583, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to PIANA NONWOVENS LLC (Cartersville, Ga.) and PERSICO S.P.A. (Nembro, Italy).

"System and method of manufacturing fiber based articles with steam molding" was invented by Michael Stephen Defranks (Cartersville, Ga.), Eric Mccann (Cartersville, Ga.), Andy Hollis (Cartersville, Ga.), Andrea Fumagalli (Nembro, Italy), Sergio Battista Gastaldi (Nembro, Italy) and Matteo Radi (Nembro, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example method, a NWM molding blank, including a non-woven material held in compression by a binder, is placed in a separable mold, and heated to a melting temperature of the bi...