ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,524, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to APLIX (Le Cellier, France).
"Retaining device for protecting retaining elements" was invented by Laurent Torlay (Le Cellier, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Retaining device, comprising a tape having an upper face extending along a longitudinal direction, the upper face being provided with retaining elements, characterized in that the upper face of the tape comprises at least one seam of material defining a contour having an internal surface comprising retaining elements, each of the at least one seam having two ends, the ends being associated in pairs, the distance between the ends of each...