US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on March 31 for "Embossed toilet tissue" (Massachusetts, Ohio, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,419, issued on March 31, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Embossed toilet tissue" was invented by John Allen Manifold (Sunman, Ind.), Charles Chidozie Ekenga (Boston), Douglas Jay Barkey (Hamilton Township, Ohio), Kathleen Diane Sands (West Chester, Ohio) and Thorsten Knobloch (Brookline, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embossed fibrous structures that exhibit a Dry Burst of greater than 270 g as measured according to the Dry Burst Test Method and more particularly to embossed fibrous structures that exhibit a Dry Burst of greater than 270 g as measured according to the Dry Burst Test Method and a Total D...