ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,093, issued on July 1, was assigned to HUNTER DOUGLAS INC. (Pearl River, N.Y.).
"Architectural covering with woven material" was invented by Erick A. Phillips (Denver).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A covering for an architectural feature includes a woven material. The woven material is made at least partially from binder yarns to form a woven fabric. The binder yarns are heated after the fabric is woven to a temperature sufficient to cause the binder yarns to bond and fuse to adjacent yarns at crossover points. The woven material is inherently resistant to fraying and/or unraveling."
The patent was filed on April 14, 2020, under Appl...