ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,438, issued on April 1, was assigned to Kimberly-Clark Worldwide Inc. (Neenah, Wis.).
"Soft wet pressed facial tissue" was invented by Christopher L. Satori (Hortonville, Wis.), Kevin J. Vogt (Neenah, Wis.) and Mark W. Sachs (Appleton, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are multi-ply tissue products, particularly wet pressed facial tissue products that have been recreped. For example, disclosed are tissue products prepared from wet pressed tissue webs that have been recreped using a print-crepe process that deposits a latex polymer on at least one of the outer surfaces of the tissue web. The tissue products have improved s...