ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,463, issued on June 17, was assigned to GPCP IP HOLDINGS LLC.

"Multi-ply paper products having a first stratified base sheet and a second stratified base sheet" was invented by Peter G. Anderson (De Pere, Wis.), Frank D. Harper (Neenah, Wis.) and Nathan E. Capps (Appleton, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multi-ply paper products and methods of making such products includes providing a first furnish including a primary pulp having papermaking fibers with a weight-weighted average fiber length, a coarseness of about sixteen milligrams per one hundred meters or lower, and being at least eighty percent of the papermaking fibers of th...