US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on Dec. 23 for "Apparatus and process for making a water soluble pouch" (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,286, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Apparatus and process for making a water soluble pouch" was invented by Miguel Brandt Sanz (Etterbeek, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus including a thermoforming mold having a forming surface; a plurality of spaced apart recesses in the forming surface, wherein each recess includes a vacuum orifice and each vacuum orifice is in fluid communication with a vacuum source; a continuous land area (250) surrounding the recesses, wherein portions of the land area between the recesses have an average roughness Ra from 2.2 micro metre to 10 micr...