US Patent Issued to Domtar Paper on Sept. 30 for "Molded pulp products incorporating surface enhanced pulp fibers and methods of making the same" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,788, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Domtar Paper Co. LLC (Fort Mill, S.C.).

"Molded pulp products incorporating surface enhanced pulp fibers and methods of making the same" was invented by Harshad Pande (Fort Mill, S.C.) and Tarik Jabrane (Fort Mill, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a particular implementation, a method of pulp product manufacture includes spraying a surface enhanced pulp fiber (SEPF) coating on at least a portion of a molded pulp product, the SEPF coating comprising SEPF having a length weighted average fiber length that is at least 0.20 millimeters (mm) and an average hydrodynamic specific surface area ...