US Patent Issued to Kimberly-Clark Worldwide on March 18 for "Soft and strong tissue product including regenerated cellulose fibers" (Wisconsin, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,845, issued on March 18, was assigned to Kimberly-Clark Worldwide Inc. (Neenah, Wis.).

"Soft and strong tissue product including regenerated cellulose fibers" was invented by Bo Shi (Neenah, Wis.), Thomas G. Shannon (Neenah, Wis.), Brent M. Thompson (Oshkosh, Wis.), Michael A. Zawadzki (Clemmons, N.C.) and Stephen M. Lindsay (Appleton, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a wet-laid tissue product comprising regenerated cellulose fibers that can provide 25% or less of the total weight of the wet-laid tissue product. The regenerated cellulose fibers can have a denier of less than 0.9 and a fiber length o...