US Patent Issued to Nuvar on Sept. 23 for "Method for manufacturing printed fabric furniture coverings" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,657, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Nuvar Inc. (Holland, Mich.).

"Method for manufacturing printed fabric furniture coverings" was invented by Amy L. Sparks (Grandville, Mich.), Kurt R. Laansma (Hudsonville, Mich.), Eric Binnendyk (West Olive, Mich.) and Nathan T. Konyndyk (Jenison, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fabric furniture covering manufactured using the process of selecting printing pattern/photo or artistic design and then printing a first pattern to a first fabric by printing an image to a transfer paper using a reverse image or directly printing (future state) directly onto the material. A transfer paper is t...