ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,816, issued on May 6, was assigned to Serge Ferrari SAS (Saint Jean de Soudain, France).
"Non-combustible, breathable membrane" was invented by Jonathan Rojon (Glattfelden, Switzerland), Guilhem Merenna (Zurich) and Julia Breton (Zurich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coated textile contains a web based on glass fibres having a back face, a front face and at least one edge. The front face is covered with a coating layer based on silicone and back face is capable of being bonded to a support. The coating layer has a thickness between 5 micro metre and 250 micro metre and includes at least one inorganic flame retardant compound in a q...