US Patent Issued to Columbia Insurance on Aug. 19 for "Artificial turf and methods of making same" (Georgia, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,094, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Columbia Insurance Co. (Omaha, Neb.).

"Artificial turf and methods of making same" was invented by Philipe Aldahir (Chattanooga, Tenn.), Derek Bass (Cartersville, Ga.) and Jim Burns (Rocky Face, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are artificial turfs having a nonwoven backing layer and a plurality of turf fibers extending through the nonwoven backing layer such that a face side portion of the turf fibers extends from the face side of the nonwoven backing layer and a back side portion of the turf fibers extends from the back side of the nonwoven backing layer, wherein at least a portio...