ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,505, issued on March 11, was assigned to BLUE DANUBE ROBOTICS GMBH (Vienna).

"Method of manufacturing a cushion" was invented by Andreas Baldinger (Vienna), Tobias Ferner (Vienna), Michael Zillich (Vienna) and Walter Wohlkinger (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for producing a cushion with a casing made of an airtight casing material and a flexible, polydirectionally air-permeable filling body which is arranged in the casing and which is materially connected to the casing. The method includes at least the following steps: coating a first mold cavity of a molding tool with a curable, flowable and/or sprayable plastic mate...