ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,060, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Voith Patent GmbH (Heidenheim, Germany).
"Installation and method for producing a fibrous material web" was invented by Egon Friesenhahn (Aachen, Germany), Rainer Falkenberg (Vettweiss, Germany), Andreas Schilz (Aachen, Germany) and Ralf Schroder (Julich, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An installation for producing a fibrous material web, in particular a long-fiber paper or wet nonwoven web, contains a binder wire section having a binder wire for applying an aqueous binder to the fibrous material web, and a dryer section having a dryer fabric for drying and consolidating the fibrous mat...