ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,245, issued on March 24, was assigned to ALADDIN MANUFACTURING Corp. (Calhoun, Ga.).

"Trilobal filaments and spinnerets for producing the same" was invented by Maarten Meinders (Dalton, Ga.) and Paul Pustolski (Newark, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations include a spinneret plate defining a plurality of capillaries, including a first, second, and third capillary portions with a substantially hexagonal central area therebetween. The substantially hexagonal central area is joined to the spinneret plate by first and second legs being radially spaced apart and separate by a first apex of the substantially hexagon...