US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on May 13 for "Mask and papermaking belt made therefrom" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,596, issued on May 13, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Mask and papermaking belt made therefrom" was invented by Geoffrey Eugene Seger (Cincinnati), John Allen Manifold (Sunman, Ind.), Osman Polat (Montgomery, Ohio), Andrew Paul Frank Milton (Cambridge, Great Britain), Robert Scadding Moir (Arbury Park, Great Britain), Daniel Graham Ward (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Richard Bown (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fibrous structure may have a lower side and an upper side, and may comprise three-dimensional, out-of-plane features formed by knuckles on a papermaking belt, the features ma...