ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,958, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to COSTA S.R.L. (Podenzano, Italy).

"Base fabric, bonded fabric, high performance belt and manufacturing processes thereof" was invented by Giuliano Costa (Podenzano, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein a bonded fabric for a belt obtained by a process comprising: providing a base fabric made up of warp yarns in a longitudinal direction and weft yarns in a transverse direction, orthogonal to the longitudinal direction, wherein the warp yarns are provided with a predefined elasticity and the weft yarns are provided with a lower elasticity than the warp yarns; subjecting base fabric...