ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,461, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Auria Solutions UK I Ltd. (London).
"Decorative nonwoven laminates" was invented by Kenneth Mitchell Whitesell Jr. (Troy, N.C.), Sean Bracken Simmons (Concord, N.C.), Ernest Franklin Wilson (Albemarle, N.C.) and Tyler Heath (Mt. Gilead, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decorative, nonwoven laminate and a method of forming, including a first side of a first nonwoven affixed to one or both of a) a first side of a polymeric sheet or b) a second nonwoven, wherein the first nonwoven exhibits a basis weight of 15 g/m2 to 500 g/m2 and the second nonwoven exhibits a basis weight of 15 g/m2 to 1200 g...