ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,496, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to AVI PLAST PLASTIC INDUSTRIES LTD (Mevo'ot Golboa, Israel).

"Mesh structure and method of forming the mesh structure" was invented by Roi Vaknin (Ram-On, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming a mesh from thermoplastic material includes the steps of: providing an apparatus comprising a shredder and a binding station, urging thermoplastic material through the shredder to from strips of shredded material, and then transferring the shredded thermoplastic material through the binding station to form a more integral mesh formation from the shredded thermoplastic material. Such mesh m...