ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,540, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to QUANN CHENG INTERNATIONAL Co. LTD. (Pingtung, Taiwan).

"Method and system for manufacturing lightweight compounded uni-directional cloth" was invented by Hsing-Hsun Lee (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a lightweight compounded uni-directional cloth is presented, includes: providing two uni-directional cloths, and each of the uni-directional cloths has a yarn layer and an adhesive film layer; hot pressing the two uni-directional cloths with the yarn layers facing each other to form a semi-finished product, the yarn directions of the two yarn layers b...