ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,706, issued on March 25, was assigned to TORAY INDUSTRIES Inc. (Tokyo).
"Carpet" was invented by Kenichi Sakai (Otsu, Japan) and Hiroshi Kajiyama (Otsu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide a carpet exhibiting excellent antifouling property against both dry soil and wet soil. The carpet is a carpet including a pile yarn having a coated pile single yarn, in which the coated pile single yarn is a pile single yarn to which a layer A containing organopolysiloxane and a fluorine-based compound is attached, a fineness of the coated pile single yarn is 8 to 40 dtex, a crimp elongation of the...