ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,348, issued on June 23, was assigned to Aladdin Manufacturing Corp. (Calhoun, Ga.).

"Yarn storage system and method for producing textiles using such yarn storage system" was invented by Harlan Francis Morris Jr. (Calhoun, Ga.), Michael Gallman (Calhoun, Ga.) and Robert N. Bowen Jr. (Calhoun, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A yarn storage container for storing a yarn, said storage container comprising a, preferably tubular, container, having an axial length, a, preferably tubular, wall and a first and second axial extremity, the first axial extremity of said container having an opening for receiving an end of a yarn, said second a...