US Patent Issued to Geohay on Sept. 2 for "Methods of manufacturing synthetic bales" (North Carolina, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,646, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Geohay LLC (Inman, S.C.).

"Methods of manufacturing synthetic bales" was invented by Dan Hargett (Inman, S.C.) and A. V. Moody Jr. (Rutherfordton, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a synthetic bale, including the steps of heating a mixture of a first plurality of fibers with a second plurality of fibers to cause the first plurality of fibers and the second plurality of fibers to thermally bond with one another to create bonded fibers, directing the bonded fibers into a forming chamber, and outputting the bonded fibers into a sheath configured for use as a synthetic g...