ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,043, issued on April 29, was assigned to Velcro IP Holdings LLC (Manchester, N.H.).
"Seat cover fastening" was invented by Paul Joseph Voigt (Waterdown, Canada) and Victor Horst Kheil (Kitchener, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A molded seat cushion is adapted for receiving a seat cover by providing an adhesive on either or both of a flexible fastener sheet and a selected area of a molded foam cushion surface, positioning the flexible fastener sheet to cover the selected area, and allowing the adhesive to set to permanently bond the flexible fastener sheet over the selected area of the molded foam cushion surface. The selected a...