US Patent Issued to NUTRITION & BIOSCIENCES USA 4 on May 27 for "Nonwoven webs comprising polysaccharides" (American, Dutch, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,722, issued on May 27, was assigned to NUTRITION & BIOSCIENCES USA 4 INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Nonwoven webs comprising polysaccharides" was invented by Natnael Behabtu (Oegstgeest, Netherlands), Monica Harvey (Millersville, Md.), Christian Peter Lenges (Wilmington, Del.) and Ian Robert Beardsall (Shifnal, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are nonwoven webs comprising a nonwoven substrate and a binder comprising a polysaccharide. In one embodiment, the polysaccharide can comprise poly alpha-1,3-glucan, a poly alpha-1,3-glucan ether compound as disclosed herein, a poly alpha-1,3-glucan ester compound as dis...