US Patent Issued to Mountville Mills on July 29 for "Washable multi-component magnetic floor mat" (North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,850, issued on July 29, was assigned to Mountville Mills Inc. (LaGrange, Ga.).

"Washable multi-component magnetic floor mat" was invented by Franklin S. Love (Columbus, N.C.), Sudhanshu Srivastava (Greer, S.C.), Venkatkrishna Raghavendran (Houston), Brandon T. Roberts (Greer, S.C.), Padmakumar Puthillath (Greer, S.C.), Dale S. Kitchen (Boiling Springs, S.C.) and Ty G. Dawson (Spartanburg, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to a washable multi-component magnetic floor mat. The floor mat contains a textile component and a base component. The textile component and the base component are attached to one another by...