US Patent Issued to Southern Mills on Feb. 3 for "Flame resistant fabrics formed of long staple yarns and filament yarns" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,424, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Southern Mills Inc. (Union City, Ga.).

"Flame resistant fabrics formed of long staple yarns and filament yarns" was invented by Charles S. Dunn (Griffin, Ga.), Michael A. Laton (Fayetteville, Ga.), Brian John Walsh (Atlanta) and Scott Ritenour (Peachtree City, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention relate to flame resistant fabrics formed of a combination of filament and long staple yarns that exhibit excellent physical and thermal properties at relatively light weights."

The patent was filed on Dec. 4, 2020, under Application No. 17/112,724.

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