ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,792, issued on April 29, was assigned to Gluetex GmbH (Klettgau Erzingen, Germany).
"Sheet material arrangement" was invented by Dietmar Heil (Rafz, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet material arrangement having a flexible primary sheet material and an edge member with two legs pivotably connected together. The first leg has two outer portions of a band-shaped secondary sheet material and is connected to the primary sheet material along an edge portion. A central portion of the secondary sheet material is looped around an insert transversely to the longitudinal direction of said secondary sheet material and, together w...