ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,114, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Velcro IP Holdings LLC (Manchester, N.H.).
"Flexible touch fastener products" was invented by Paul Joseph Voigt (Waterdown, Canada), Victor Horst Kheil (Kitchener, Canada) and Roger R. Beech (Brighton, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet-form fastener product has a flexible substrate such as a lightweight non-woven fabric and a resin layer covering only part of one side of the flexible substrate and leaving a region of the flexible substrate exposed. The resin layer carries multiple touch fastener elements each having a resin stem extending integrally from the layer away from the flexibl...