ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,671, issued on Sept. 16.
"Loofah dish sponge and methods of manufacturing thereof" was invented by Alfonso Ramon Gorena Jean (Laredo, Texas), Rodrigo Maldonado de Hoyos (Monterrey, Mexico) and Kendra Jean Sutherland (Hampton, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a loofah dish sponge includes cutting a first cover layer and a second cover layer from the dried-out fibrous loofah skeleton, positioning a slightly smaller sized inner layer in between the first and second cover layers with their respective external sides facing outward and away from the internal layer, deforming and sewing the peripheral edges of ...