US Patent Issued to MAZCON A KURTZ BROS., HUESKER on Aug. 5 for "Silt fence configured for capturing pollutants and fabric forming the same" (Pennsylvania, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,736, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to MAZCON A KURTZ BROS. COMPANY LLC (Groveport, Ohio) and HUESKER INC (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Silt fence configured for capturing pollutants and fabric forming the same" was invented by Michael A. Zock (Saxonburg, Pa.) and Roy G. McClinton (Waxhaw, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite silt fence configured for capturing pollutants in one embodiment comprises a silt fence fabric including i) a polymeric geotextile fabric particulate filtering layer defining the hydraulic flow capacity for the silt fence, ii) a pollutant capturing layer coupled to the polymeric geotextile fabric particulate fil...