ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,771, issued on July 29, was assigned to Giorgio Trani (Venice, Italy).

"Process for making in continuous production fibrous webs which are corrugated along the machine direction" was invented by Giorgio Trani (Venice, Italy), Marion Sterner (Venice, Italy) and Federico Cariolaro (Vicenza, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Process for continuously producing ribbons of corrugated fibrous material, includes: starting from a continuous ribbon of fibrous material having transversal extensibility of not less than 8%, advancing the ribbon between a pair of forming rollers presenting ribs alternating with grooves, and having a center dist...