ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,033, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to GROZ BECKERT KG (Albstadt, Germany).

"Card clothing wire, carding machine and method for producing a nonwoven" was invented by Yuning Zhang (Singapore), Christian Kreller (Bisingen/Steinhofen, Germany), Bernhard Bocht (Nordhorn, Germany) and Rainer Grossmann (Schwenningen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A card clothing wire is disclosed, especially for a doffer or a worker of a carding machine, which provides a superior retention of fibers during a carding process and which can be universally used to produce nonwoven webs with an increased grammage or to produce nonwoven webs with a low...