ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,825, issued on July 29, was assigned to NIPPON FILCON Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Industrial fabric" was invented by Shigenobu Fujisawa (Tokyo) and Tsutomu Usuki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An industrial fabric 100 is an industrial fabric in which an upper surface side fabric composed of upper surface side warps and upper surface side wefts and a lower surface side fabric composed of lower surface side warps and lower surface side wefts are bound to each other, wherein an upper surface side warp 1Ub functions as an upper surface side binding yarn binding the upper surface side fabric and the lower surface side fabric, and a lower su...