US Patent Issued to Purple Innovation on Oct. 7 for "Elastomeric cushion members including perforated skins and related methods" (Utah Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,768, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Purple Innovation LLC (Lehi, Utah).

"Elastomeric cushion members including perforated skins and related methods" was invented by Russell B. Whatcott (Eagle Mountain, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Elastomeric cushion members may include a plurality of interconnected buckling walls including an elastomeric material. The interconnected buckling walls may together define a plurality of columns. A perforated skin may extend between at least some of the plurality of interconnected buckling walls of at least some of the plurality of columns. Methods of making elastomeric cushion members may involv...