US Patent Issued to KURARAY on July 8 for "Braided jackets with low thickness" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,957, issued on July 8, was assigned to KURARAY Co. LTD. (Kurashiki, Japan).

"Braided jackets with low thickness" was invented by Forrest Sloan (Houston) and Patrick Coffey (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods for producing core-sheath structures by shaping at least one filament bundle containing a plurality of filaments to form at least one shaped strand of filaments, and braiding a plurality of strands, including the at least one shaped strand of filaments, over a core to form the core-sheath structure containing a braided sheath of the strands surrounding the core, wherein the shaped strand of filamen...