ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,019, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to FAGERDALA SINGAPORE PTE LTD (Singapore).

"Container and dispensing system for expanded slit paper" was invented by Mun Fei Cho (Singapore), Jun Gu (Singapore), Szu Hui Lim (Singapore), Chee Keong Yap (Singapore) and George Guicas (West Melbourne, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dispensing system includes a container, a roll of slit paper, and a passive tension mechanism. The container includes panels and one of the panels includes a dispensing aperture. The slit paper on the roll is in an unexpanded state. The slit paper can be transformed from the unexpanded state to an expanded sta...