US Patent Issued to Essity Hygiene and Health Aktiebolag on April 22 for "Tissue product and method and apparatus for producing same" (French, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,445, issued on April 22, was assigned to Essity Hygiene and Health Aktiebolag (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Tissue product and method and apparatus for producing same" was invented by Emilie Pleyber (Kunheim, France), Hubert Pfister (Kunheim, France), Pascale Saas (Ismaning, Germany) and Eyyup Turk (Kunheim, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tissue product with at least four plies made of tissue paper base sheet or nonwoven that includes: a first outer ply and a second outer ply and at least two inner plies between the first outer ply and the second outer ply, wherein at least one of the inner plies is un-embossed; at least one of the ...