US Patent Issued to United Tactical Supply on March 25 for "Multi-layer barrier fabric with extended breakthrough time" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,819, issued on March 25, was assigned to United Tactical Supply LLC (Surf City, N.C.).

"Multi-layer barrier fabric with extended breakthrough time" was invented by Robert Kaiser (Edmonds, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a thin, lightweight, flexible, strong multi-layer barrier fabric is provided that offers extended breakthrough time against hazardous materials. The multi-layer barrier fabric is arranged as a layer stack that includes an inner layer of facing fabric, an adsorbent layer of adsorptive fabric, a barrier layer of low-permeability fabric and an outer layer of facing fabric. The facing fabric provi...