US Patent Issued to Kimberly-Clark Worldwide on May 13 for "Methods of manufacturing zoned webs" (Wisconsin, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,815, issued on May 13, was assigned to Kimberly-Clark Worldwide Inc. (Neenah, Wis.).

"Methods of manufacturing zoned webs" was invented by Antonio J. Carrillo Ojeda (Appleton, Wis.), Davis Dang H. Nhan (Menasha, Wis.), Dwayne J-K Jackson (Atlanta), Juha P. Kemppinen (Cumming, Ga.) and Mark M. Mleziva (Appleton, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing zoned webs can include providing a substrate and transferring the substrate in a machine direction. The method can include modifying the substrate to include a plurality of lanes to provide a modified substrate. The plurality of lanes can include a first lane and a ...