ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,799, issued on May 6, was assigned to Aladdin Manufacturing Corp. (Calhoun, Ga.).

"Systems and methods for producing a bundle of filaments and/or a yarn" was invented by Anthony Cascio (Calhoun, Ga.), James Mason (Summerville, Ga.), Daniel Amos (Dalton, Ga.) and Lucinda Jones (Calhoun, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems for producing M yarns, wherein Mless than=1, include N extruders, M spin stations, and a processor, wherein Nless than1. Each extruder includes a thermoplastic polymer having a color, hue, and/or dyability characteristic, which are different from each other. Each spin station produces one yarn comprising at le...