ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,550, issued on June 24, was assigned to WEB INDUSTRIES INC. (Marlborough, Mass.).

"Thermoplastic composite master sheets and tapes and method" was invented by Grand Hou (Norcross, Ga.), Manish Baldevbhai Patel (Bishop, Ga.), Charouny Chansipaeng-Lee (Cumming, Ga.) and Mark L. Richardson (Suwanee, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus are provided for the production of thermoplastic composite sheets whose fibers are other than perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the sheet and which are capable of being slit into sheets, strips and/or tapes of custom widths."

The patent was filed on Sept. 15, 2023, under Appli...