ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,810, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to AVIENT PROTECTIVE MATERIALS B.V. (Geleen, Netherlands).
"Strong and stretchable seam tape" was invented by Eva Osborne (Echt, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a seam tape comprising at least one layer of unidirectionally aligned fibers whereby the fibers are oriented substantially perpendicular to the length of the tape and the strength of the tape in the perpendicular direction is at least 200 N/2.54 cm [inch]. The fibers are selected from the group of UHMWPE, polyamide, polyester, glass or carbon fibers. Preferably the fibers are UHMWPE fibers. The s...