US Patent Issued to Aladdin Manufacturing on Sept. 23 for "Single pass carpet-production method and carpets prepared using same" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,539, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Aladdin Manufacturing Corp. (Calhoun, Ga.).

"Single pass carpet-production method and carpets prepared using same" was invented by Michael E. Bell (Lexington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low-weight carpet or carpet tile and process for making the same, wherein the carpet or carpet tile comprises a facecloth having a plurality of face yarns tufted through a primary backing, a low-viscosity polyolefin coating layer applied to the primary backing, a reinforcing scrim layer, and an extruded polyolefin sheet. The top surface and bottom surface of the carpet tile are defined by the faceclo...