ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,164, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to PIONEER ELASTIC (CHINA) LTD. (Guangdong, China).
"Split webbing" was invented by Yuanfen Xie (Guangdong, China), Xiangcong Huang (Guangdong, China) and Xiqiu Tang (Guangdong, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A split webbing is provided, including: a webbing body woven in one piece by a first and second warp set, a first and a second dividing thread arranged side by side and a weft thread, a closed and a split section provided in sequence along the length of the webbing body, the weft thread being interlaced with the first warp set to form a first sub-webbing, and the weft thread being inter...