US Patent Issued to DUPONT SAFETY & CONSTRUCTION on June 23 for "Ballistic resistant material made of mechanically entangled woven fabrics without nonwoven fibers and method of making thereof" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,241, issued on June 23, was assigned to DUPONT SAFETY & CONSTRUCTION INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Ballistic resistant material made of mechanically entangled woven fabrics without nonwoven fibers and method of making thereof" was invented by Joseph Hovanec (Richmond, Va.), Scott Janco (Richmond, Va.), Shekoufeh Shahkarami (Mississauga, Canada) and Kevin Mulcahy (Richmond, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A consolidated material and method for forming a consolidated material. The consolidated material comprises a plurality of woven fabric layers that are mechanically entangled together. The plurality of woven fabric layers comprise fib...