ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,115, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to KURARAY Co. LTD. (Kurashiki, Japan).
"High surface area braids" was invented by Patrick Coffey (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are filamentary braids containing a plurality of filamentary elements braided together, where the filamentary elements include one or more main filamentary elements and one or more looped filamentary elements. The looped filamentary elements are arranged in one or more looped structures extending outward from the longitudinal axis formed by the main filamentary elements. The looped filamentary elements are made of a fiber having a tensile modulu...