US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on Oct. 7 for "Thermally protective composite articles, and associated methods and wetsuits" (Pennsylvania, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,352, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Va.).

"Thermally protective composite articles, and associated methods and wetsuits" was invented by Emil Paskalev Kartalov (Pacific Grove, Calif.) and Andrew Thomas Vesey Waldron (Allentown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible, thermally-insulating composite article includes: a base layer; a plurality of teeth extending from the base layer; and grooves extending between the teeth to enable the teeth to converge. The composite article may be in the form of a pad insertable into a pock...