US Patent Issued to GoGown on May 27 for "Compactable surface covering member and method for compacting the same" (North Carolina, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,433, issued on May 27, was assigned to GoGown LLC (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Compactable surface covering member and method for compacting the same" was invented by Virginia Porowski (Wake Forest, N.C.) and Nicholas William Medendorp Jr. (Carmel, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surface covering member includes a wrapper panel and pliable sheet material with at least one liquid-penetration-resistant layer. The wrapper panel may at least partially envelop the pliable sheet material when the pliable sheet material is compacted. At least one accordion fold may be provided along one or more peripheral edges, optionally with the wrapper panel...