ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,419, issued on April 22.
"Three-dimensional knitted material" was invented by Dmitry Valeryevich Marchenkov (Moscow).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The three-dimensional knitted material includes knitted layers that are connected to one another to form a three-dimensional product. Each wale or course in a layer is formed by using an end of a thread that is a continuation of a loop of the preceding course or wale or layer to create at least two loops of the current course or wale in different planes. The loops of the current course or wale are run through at least one loop of a neighboring wale or course or layer of the knitted material...