US Patent Issued to Milliken & Co. on Dec. 30 for "Printed textile substrate and process for making" (South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,821, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Milliken & Co. (Spartanburg, S.C.).

"Printed textile substrate and process for making" was invented by Robert M. MacMeccan (Greer, S.C.), Jonathan C. McCay (LaGrange, Ga.), Tammy B. Harris (Valley, Ala.), Kevin D. West (LaGrange, Ga.), Dale S. Kitchen (Boiling Springs, S.C.), Jonathan Rosen (Greenville, S.C.) and Scott R. Parry (Spartanburg, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to a printed textile substrate, such as a floorcovering article, and a process for making a printed textile substrate. This invention provides the process and steps to print color patterns in-regist...