US Patent Issued to Stora Enso on May 12 for "Method for manufacturing a barrier film comprising highly refined cellulose" (Finnish, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,501, issued on May 12, was assigned to Stora Enso OYJ (Helsinki).

"Method for manufacturing a barrier film comprising highly refined cellulose" was invented by Isto Heiskanen (Imatra, Finland), Kaj Backfolk (Lappeenranta, Finland), Katja Lyytikainen (Imatra, Finland), Anders Moberg (Hammaro, Sweden) and Jukka Kankkunen (Imatra, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a barrier film comprising highly refined cellulose, said method comprising: a) providing a highly refined cellulose pulp suspension comprising highly refined cellulose pulp having a Schopper-Riegler (SR) number in...