ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,562, issued on June 24, was assigned to TRUTZSCHLER GROUP SE (Monchengladbach, Germany) and VOITH PATENT GMBH (Heidenheim, Germany).

"System and method for producing a single- or multi-layer nonwoven" was invented by Thomas Weigert (Sulzbach, Germany), Kai Pohler (Vettweiss, Germany), Ralf Schroder (Langen, Germany) and Andreas Schilz (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an installation and to a method of producing a web, wherein the installation includes a device for producing a layer of wet laid fibres, which has an entangling device and at least one dryer disposed downstream in material transpor...