ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,072, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Cascade Designs Inc. (Reno, Nev.).

"Resilient cores with convection barriers particularly for inflatable bodies and methods for making the same" was invented by John Lincoln (Vashon Island, Wash.), Douglas Jacot (Kingston, Wash.), Jay Gutka (Renton, Wash.), Brandon Bowers (Burien, Wash.) and James Marson (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Resilient cores preferably for inflatable bodies having resilient slabs that define a plurality of generally columnar holes or resilient arrays of generally columnar solids, methods for making such slabs and arrays, and articles incorporating the same whe...