ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,790, issued on April 29, was assigned to BMIC LLC (Dallas).

"Synthetic fabric having slip resistant properties and method of making same" was invented by Gurpreet Singh Sandhar (Langley, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A synthetic nonwoven fabric having bonded fibers forming channels surrounding unbonded fibers forming raised slip resistant spots. The fabric is made by extruding hot polymer through a spinneret die onto a moving belt to form a sheet of random fibers, which sheet undergoes a calendering process between a pair of heated rollers, one of which rollers having a plurality of cavities defined in its surface. The resulti...