ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,559, issued on July 8.
"Back-face dynamic profiling system" was invented by Alan Goertz (Grand Blanc, Mich.), Andrew D Brown (Abingdon, Md.) and Karin A Rafaels (Pylesville, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dynamic profiling system comprises an initially planar grid formed by first parallel fibers and second parallel fibers oriented, advantageously, orthogonally to the first fibers. The two fiber sets may be woven or non-woven with respect to one another. As a force is placed on grid, each of the two sets of fibers are pulled into the limits of the grid as the grid pockets. The amount of each fiber pulled in, the measurement being...