ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,781, issued on Aug. 26.
"Hook and loop rope" was invented by Kevin R. Stoops (Bucyrus, Kan.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The hook and loop rope facilitates tying objects down without requiring a user to tie a knot in the rope. Instead, the user need only loop the rope through a tiedown (or structural equivalent) prior to engaging hooks of a first portion of the rope with loops of a second portion of the rope. In the rolled configuration, a plurality of hooks associated with a hook side of the rope engage with a plurality of loops associated with a loop side of the rope, thereby retaining the rope in the rolled configuration. The pl...