US Patent Issued to CURT G. JOA on June 23 for "Apparatus and method of manufacturing multi-piece closed-back isolation garments" (Wisconsin, Tennessee, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,877, issued on June 23, was assigned to CURT G. JOA INC. (Sheboygan Falls, Wis.).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for executing a method of manufacturing multi-piece closed-back isolation garments (410) includes machinery for creating discrete torso web pieces (412) from a continuous torso web, combining the dis...