ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,326, issued on May 20, was assigned to Elkem Silicones France SAS (Lyons, France).

"Method for coating a textile medium" was invented by Perrine Theil (St Pierre de Chandieu, France), Emmanuel Pouget (Bron, France) and Magali Puillet (Lyons, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a coating method wherein a silicone composition crosslinkable by polyaddition reactions is used to form a silicone elastomer on an open-work and/or elastic textile medium. The crosslinking of the silicone composition is obtained by irradiating with UV radiation, the source of which is a UV-LED lamp."

The patent was filed on J...