ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,513, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to ANDRITZ Novimpianti S.r.l. (Marlia-Capannori, Italy).

"System and method for controlling process fluids in a plant for manufacturing web-like paper material" was invented by Pietro Saccomano (Marlia-Capannori, Italy) and Luca Linari (Marlia-Capannori, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Herein described is a plant (10) for manufacturing web-like paper material which comprises a system for controlling process fluids. The plant (10) comprises a first wet half-hood (14), a second dry half-hood (16) and four unidirectional flow regulating devices (28, 30; 34, 40) which, suitably positioned on the ...