ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,705, issued on March 31, was assigned to ADLER PELZER HOLDING GMBH (Germany).

"Sound insulation with multilayer fibre insulation; and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Volkmar Schulze (Schierling, Germany), Reimund Piatkowski (Dortmund, Germany) and Nora Jestel (Bochum, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a floor covering insulation for a motor vehicle with a multi-layer, preferably flocked, fibre insulation which, by a soft/smooth coupling layer to the wear surface, realises a sound insulation floor covering with improved acoustic and mechanical-physical properties, with a simultaneous reduction in w...