US Patent Issued to Lear on June 10 for "System and method of making a mesh cushion" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,168, issued on June 10, was assigned to Lear Corp. (Southfield, Mich.).

"System and method of making a mesh cushion" was invented by Sam Blair (Southfield, Mich.), Joshua Hallock (Southfield, Mich.), David Abdella (Southfield, Mich.), Pat Carlsen (Southfield, Mich.) and Michelle A. Pereny (Southfield, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making a mesh cushion. The method includes extruding a material through a plurality of filament forming openings in at least one die plate to form a plurality of filaments. The filaments may be at least partially submerged into a fluid to cool and harden the filaments into the mesh cushio...