US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on Nov. 4 for "Methods of creating soft and lofty nonwoven webs" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,330, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Methods of creating soft and lofty nonwoven webs" was invented by Han Xu (Cincinnati) and Gueltekin Erdem (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of creating a soft and lofty continuous fiber nonwoven web is provided. The method includes providing molten polymer to a spinneret defining a plurality of orifices, and flowing a fluid intermediate the spinneret and a moving porous member. The moving porous member is positioned below the spinneret. The method includes using the fluid to draw or push the molten polymer, in a direction that is toward the m...