US Patent Issued to Stora Enso on July 22 for "Method for manufacturing a film comprising highly refined cellulose fibers" (Finnish, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,036, issued on July 22, was assigned to Stora Enso OYJ (Helsinki).

"Method for manufacturing a film comprising highly refined cellulose fibers" was invented by Anna Kauppi (Lappeenranta, Finland), Isto Heiskanen (Imatra, Finland), Kaj Backfolk (Lappeenranta, Finland), Jukka Kankkunen (Imatra, Finland), Mikael Hjerpe (Karlstad, Sweden) and Juha Korvenniemi (Oriniemi, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a film comprising highly refined cellulose fibers in a paper-making machine, the method comprising the steps of: a) providing an aqueous pulp suspension comprising at least ...