ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,939, issued on June 10, was assigned to KOLON INDUSTRIES INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Spunbonded nonwoven fabric and tile carpet using the same" was invented by Woo-seok Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Min-ho Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Hee-jung Cho (Seoul, South Korea), Young-shin Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Jung-soon Jang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a spunbond nonwoven fabric for a base fabric for tile carpet which not only has excellent spinnability during the production of nonwoven fabric and improves tensile strength and tensile elongation, and has the effect of recycling waste ...