ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,959, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Willacoochee Industrial Fabrics Inc. (Willacoochee, Ga.).
"Woven silt fence fabrics" was invented by Eric Lee Booth (Nashville, Ga.), Melissa Grace (Gulf Breeze, Fla.) and Kevin William Ray (Enigma, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A woven silt fence fabric includes two or more different warp yarns having different cross-sectional shapes in the machine direction and/or two or more different fill yarns having different cross-sectional shapes in the cross-machine/transverse direction. The woven silt fence fabric includes one or more marker yarns having a different color than adjacent yarn(s) to...