US Patent Issued to Sekisui Kydex on Feb. 25 for "Systems and methods for an in-line texture apparatus" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,638, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Sekisui Kydex LLC (Bloomsburg, Pa.).

"Systems and methods for an in-line texture apparatus" was invented by Jeffrey Humenick (Bloomsburg, Pa.), Jym Kauffman (Bloomsburg, Pa.) and Rebecca Gallup (Bloomsburg, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative dye sublimation apparatus may include a texture sheet with a pattern to be applied to a substrate. More specifically, the texture sheet is pressed into the substrate during the dye sublimation process in order to apply the pattern from the texture sheet while the substrate is heated and simultaneously being infused with an image from a print...