ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,532, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Continuus Materials Intellectual Property LLC (The Woodlands, Texas).

"Combining wet paper and plastic to a controlled dry weight ratio" was invented by Brian McQuerrey (Sarasota, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include determining a first dry mass flow rate of a wet paper material stream based on a first amount of contaminants, a first moisture content, and a first wet mass flow rate of the wet paper material stream, determining a second dry mass flow rate of a wet plastic material stream based on a second amount of contaminants, a second moisture content, and a second wet mass ...