ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,774, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to AVIENT PROTECTIVE MATERIALS B.V. (Geleen, Netherlands).
"Method of manufacturing multifilament yarns of filled high-performance polyethylene (HPPE) fibers" was invented by Roelof Marissen (Echt, Netherlands), Tina Bruckner (Echt, Netherlands), Peto Verdaasdonk (Echt, Netherlands) and Jozef Siegfried Johannes Homminga (Echt, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of manufacturing multifilament yarns of filled high-performance polyethylene (HPPE) fibers that are formed of HPPE filled with a hard component having a Mohs hardness of at least 2.5 are provided. The methods include applyin...