ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,880, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to AB LUDVIG SVENSSON (Kinna, Sweden).

"Insect net lamella and method of producing the same" was invented by Louise Holgersson (Ojersjo, Sweden), Sara Widen (Boras, Sweden), Niclas Bergh Gustafsson (Skene, Sweden) and Stefan Almstrom (Kinnarumma, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is an insect net strip produced from a wide insect net which has been cut in a warp direction (xnet) by means of a one-step ultrasonic cutting and welding process. The insect net strip includes warp yarns and weft yarns extending substantially perpendicular to each other and at least 90% of the warp and weft...