US Patent Issued to Mr. Snow on April 1 for "Textile sliding surface for ski and toboggan applications" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,441, issued on April 1, was assigned to Mr. Snow GmbH (Chemnitz, Germany).

"Textile sliding surface for ski and toboggan applications" was invented by Jens Reindl (Leipzig, Germany) and Felix Neubert (Hirschfeld, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a textile sliding surface with a functional layer (1) and a base layer (2), which are connected to each other by filament yarns. The functional layer (1) is formed of pile loops, whereby the height of the pile loops in the functional layer (1) has a height (4), depending on the sport, in the range 4-1 4 mm and the functional layer (1) has 400-2400 pile loops per dm2. The ya...