ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,110, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).
"Nonwoven fabrics made of bicomponent fibers" was invented by Daniel Mueller (Basel, Switzerland) and Sebastien Villeneuve (Huningue, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to nonwoven fabrics comprising bicomponent fibers, wherein the bicomponent fibers comprise at least two distinct polymeric domains a) and b) in intimate adherence along the length of the fibers, and -polymeric domain a) comprises a compound of formula (1), wherein the substituents are as defined in the specification, and -polymeric domain b) is free of ...