US Patent Issued on Sept. 22 for "Laminated tufted good" (Georgia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,296, issued on Sept. 22.

"Laminated tufted good" was invented by John H. Bearden (Marietta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article of artificial athletic turf or other tufted good made of a fabric backing sheet having a top face and a bottom face and having yarn tufted through the backing such that yarn pile extends from the top face and yarn backloops are along the bottom face which are laminated and tuft locked by layers of polyethylene film that are separately transparent and opaque to the wavelength of a near infrared or visible energy. These polyethylene layers are placed against the backing bottom face, with the opaque ...