US Patent Issued to Piana Nonwovens, Consiglio Nazionale Delle Richerche on Jan. 20 for "System and method of in-place functionalization of 3D regions and arrays thereof, in VLAP cushions, as integrated VLAP pressure sensing cushions" (Italian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,389, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Piana Nonwovens LLC (Cartersville, Ga.) and Consiglio Nazionale Delle Richerche (Rome).

"System and method of in-place functionalization of 3D regions and arrays thereof, in VLAP cushions, as integrated VLAP pressure sensing cushions" was invented by Andrea Piana (Cartersville, Ga.), Michael Stephen DeFranks (Cartersville, Ga.), Nicola Coppede (Parma, Italy), Andrea Zappettini (Reggio Emilia, Italy), Manuele Bettelli (Reggio Emilia, Italy) and Marco Villani (Parma, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods include functionalizing, into a compressible pressure varying electrical conductance d...