US Patent Issued to SUOMINEN on April 29 for "Method for producing nonwoven fabric and nonwoven fabric" (American, Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,734, issued on April 29, was assigned to SUOMINEN OYJ (Helsinki).

"Method for producing nonwoven fabric and nonwoven fabric" was invented by Miika Nikinmaa (Espoo, Finland) and Avinav G. Nandgaonkar (Northborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for producing a nonwoven fabric, the method comprising the steps of providing fibres comprising 10-100 wt-% of bast fibres, the bast fibres having at least one angle of at least 20deg, and the bast fibres having an average fibre length of 10-60 mm; carding the fibres and forming a web of fibres on a wire support; ...