ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,418, issued on March 31, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Sanitary tissue products comprising once-dried fibers" was invented by Christopher Michael Young (Loveland, Ohio), Jeffrey Glen Sheehan (Symmes Township, Ohio), Kathryn Christian Kien (Cincinnati) and Ward William Ostendorf (West Chester, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes for making sanitary tissue products of the present disclosure may comprise re-slushing pulp comprising non-wood fibers prior to sending the pulp to a headbox; forming a web comprising the non-wood fibers; creating zones of differential densities in the web; and creping the ...