US Patent Issued to C3 on Feb. 18 for "Paper wrapping materials and method for a highly compressed product" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,682, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to C3 Corp. (Appleton, Wis.).

"Paper wrapping materials and method for a highly compressed product" was invented by Joseph F. Van De Hey (Kaukauna, Wis.), Jeffery J. VanHandel (Freedom, Wis.), Alex M. Zirbel (Kaukauna, Wis.) and Alex N. Kuffel (Appleton, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Paper wrapping materials and method to securely wrap a rolled-up High Expansion Force product. The materials include a kraft paper layer encircling a circumference of the product with a leading end of the paper layer adhered to a tail end of the product by a first hotmelt adhesive. A tail end of the paper layer ...