ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,762, issued on March 25, was assigned to Odenwald-Chemie GmbH (Schonau, Germany).

"Method for producing a hollow profile component, mold tool and hollow profile component" was invented by Patrick HofstroBler (Wiesenbach, Germany), Kevin Friebel (Neunkirchen, Germany), Boris Benzus (Heidelberg, Germany) and Dominik Hotz (Schonau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a channel-shaped hollow profile component from a nonwoven material includes providing first and second nonwoven material layers arranging the first and second nonwoven material layers in a mold tool having first and second mold tool halves and a c...