US Patent Issued to STRUCTURED I on July 1 for "Tissue product made using laser engraved structuring belt" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,997, issued on July 1, was assigned to STRUCTURED I LLC (Great Neck, N.Y.).

"Tissue product made using laser engraved structuring belt" was invented by James E. Sealey (Belton, S.C.), Byrd Tyler Miller IV (Easley, S.C.), Phillip MacDonald (Anderson, S.C.), Taras Z. Andrukh (Greenville, S.C.) and Justin S. Pence (Williamston, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tissue product including a laminate of at least two plies of a multi-layer tissue web, the tissue product having a softness value (HF) of 92.0 or greater, a lint value of 4.5 or less, and an Sdr of greater than 3.0."

The patent was filed on Feb. 16, 2022, under Application No...