US Patent Issued to KEMIRA on Jan. 13 for "Use of metal chelates as a surface application for abrasion and/or taber stiffness, improvement in paper and paperboard" (Alabama Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,981, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to KEMIRA OYJ (Helsinki).

"Use of metal chelates as a surface application for abrasion and/or taber stiffness, improvement in paper and paperboard" was invented by George Gordon Bugg (Auburn, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments of the present invention generally relate to i) paper and paperboard or molded products with improved abrasion resistance and/or taber stiffness, ii) methods for making paper and paperboard or molded products with improved abrasion resistance and/or taber stiffness, and iii) methods for improving abrasion resistance and/or taber stiffness paper and paperboar...