ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,807, issued on May 6, was assigned to Swedish Match North Europe AB (Stockholm).
"Manufacturing of a web of packaging material" was invented by Cristian Bodin (Lerum, Sweden) and Linnea Seiler (Partille, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an arrangement and a method for manufacturing of a web of packaging material for an oral pouched snuff product. The web is a saliva-permeable nonwoven web includes fibres, whereof 0%-95% of said fibres are of a first type and 5%-100% of a second type, the fibres of the first type being cellulose-based staple fibres, and the fibres of the second type being thermoplastic fibres, which ...