ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,967, issued on July 1, was assigned to NIPPON FILCON Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Industrial fabric" was invented by Ikuo Ueda (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Each of upper surface side warps arranged vertically with lower surface side warps in pairs has a common weaving pattern excluding binding wefts. Binding warps constitute at least one of two warps vertically arranged forming pairs. In the pairs formed by the binding warps and the warps arranged vertically with the binding warps, the warps complement each other to form a weaving pattern for one upper surface side warp and a weaving pattern for one lower surface side warp, r...