ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,440, issued on April 22, was assigned to Huyck Licensco Inc. (Youngsville, N.C.).

"Endless woven dryer fabric for papermaking machine" was invented by Friedrich Postl (Flatz, Austria) and Klaus Haiden (Neunkirchen, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endless-woven dryer fabric for a papermaking machine includes: a plurality of upper warp yarns; a plurality of lower warp yarns; and a plurality of weft yarns interwoven with the plurality of upper and lower warp yarns in a series of repeat units. Each weft yarn includes upper and lower portions, the upper portions interwoven with the upper warp yarns, and the lower portions interwo...