ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,526, issued on June 10, was assigned to GOODRICH Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Evacuation inflatable formed of nano-fiber material" was invented by Rajamanikandan Sivaraman (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inflatable for an evacuation system may comprise a nano-fiber material defining an inflation chamber. The nano-fiber material may include a nano-fiber fabric formed of woven nano-fibers, an interior thermoplastic polymeric coating formed over a first side of the nano-fiber fabric and oriented toward the inflation chamber, and an exterior thermoplastic polymeric coating formed over a second side of the nano-fiber fabr...