US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on Oct. 6 for "Extended process roll nip" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,523, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Extended process roll nip" was invented by Mario Castillo (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process roller is provided including an inner core and a roller cover structure adapted to be mounted on the inner core for rotation with the inner core, the roller cover structure defining an outer surface adapted to mate with at least one of a belt or a mating roller such that a nip receives at least one of a wet web or a fibrous structure, in which the roller cover structure includes an inner ring positioned about the inner core and an outer ring positi...