US Patent Issued to ATEX Technologies on Feb. 10 for "Process of changing cross sectional shape within a textile" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,972, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ATEX Technologies Inc. (Pinebluff, N.C.).

"Process of changing cross sectional shape within a textile" was invented by Robert A. Kiefer (Quakertown, Pa.), Nathan Spangenberg (Quakertown, Pa.), Stephanie Burke (Quakertown, Pa.), Matthew Oltman (Center Valley, Pa.) and Thomas R. Molz (Warrington, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for changing cross-sectional sizes and/or shapes of flat braided sutures and the resulting constructs are disclosed. The flat braided sutures can have a textile first cross-sectional shape that can be changed to a textile second cross-secti...