ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,034, issued on July 22, was assigned to Kimberly-Clark Worldwide Inc. (Neenah, Wis.).
"Three-dimensional papermaking belt" was invented by Mark Alan Burazin (Oshkosh, Wis.), Lynda Ellen Collins (Neenah, Wis.) and Geoffrey Fenn Carlow (Neenah, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to belts useful in the manufacture of paper products, such as tissue paper. Particularly this invention relates to a belt used in a through-air drying process for making tissue products, and more particularly to an additively manufactured belt having a particular pattern thereon which imparts properties to tissue products manufact...