US Patent Issued to Curt G. Joa on July 14 for "Apparatus and method of manufacturing multi-piece open-back isolation garments" (Wisconsin, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,890, issued on July 14, was assigned to Curt G. Joa Inc. (Sheboygan Falls, Wis.).

"Apparatus and method of manufacturing multi-piece open-back isolation garments" was invented by Robert E. Andrews (Falmouth, Mass.), Samuel E. Darcy (Cleveland, Wis.), Scott A. Roehrborn (Sheboygan, Wis.) and Jeffrey W. Fritz (Plymouth, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for executing a method of manufacturing multi-piece open-back isolation garments (10) includes machinery for creating discrete torso web pieces (12) from a continuous torso web (14), combining the discrete torso pieces with a continuous shoulder web having neck openings (...