US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on Jan. 27 for "Characteristics of non-wood fibers and the sanitary tissue products comprising them" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,855, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Characteristics of non-wood fibers and the sanitary tissue products comprising them" was invented by Christopher Michael Young (Loveland, Ohio), Jeffrey Glen Sheehan (Symmes Township, Ohio) and Ward William Ostendorf (West Chester, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sanitary tissue products, which may be creped, having non-wood fibers and exhibits a coverage greater than about 5.5 fiber layers and a fiber count-area (C(n)) greater than about 830 million/m2 and/or a coverage greater than about 7.5 fiber layers and/or a coverage greater than a line defined...