US Patent Issued to SWISS KRONO TEC on Oct. 14 for "Planar material and method for the production thereof" (German, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,024, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SWISS KRONO TEC AG (Lucerne, Switzerland).

"Planar material and method for the production thereof" was invented by Roger Braun (Willisau, Switzerland), Joachim Hasch (Berlin), Volker Schwind (Berlin) and Norbert Kalwa (Horn-Bad Meinberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a planar material, comprising lignocellulose fibers and binding agents. In order to provide a planar material that using fibers has reduced swelling, it is provided that the proportion of the binding agent has more than 50 wt % of the planar material. The invention also comprises a method for produ...