US Patent Issued to ATEX Technologies on March 18 for "Indicator marking technology for textiles" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,497, issued on March 18, was assigned to ATEX Technologies Inc. (Pinebluff, N.C.).

"Indicator marking technology for textiles" was invented by Brian McMurray (Aberdeen, N.C.), Mark Wesley Jessup (Whispering Pines, N.C.), Tim Warner (Whispering Pines, N.C.), Gary Webb Broussard Jr. (Carthage, N.C.), David B. Carroll (Pinehurst, N.C.) and Morgan Gwaltney (Pinehurst, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improved methods, designs and/or systems for incorporating markings and/or other visual and/or tactilely identifiable indicia on woven, knitted, nonwoven, braided and/or felted textiles used for medical textile implants and prostheses, i...