ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,108, issued on Sept. 16.
"Safety strap" was invented by Chung-Kun Lin (Chiayi, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A safety strap has an outer layer, an inner layer disposed in the outer layer and a plurality of interlace strands. The inner layer has a plurality of warp strand bundles and a plurality of first weft strands woven with each other. Each of the warp strand bundles has more than one first warp strand. The outer layer is woven with a plurality of second warp strands and a plurality of second weft strands. The interlace strands continuously intertwine with the second weft strands and the first weft strands."
The patent w...