ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,228, issued on June 2, was assigned to HAMPIDJAN HF (Reykjavik, Iceland).
"Bend fatigue resistant blended rope" was invented by Hjortur Erlendsson (Kopavogur, Iceland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blended rope is provided having an outer sheath (8) enclosing at least a strength member (7), the strength member (7) having high-strength synthetic fibers, the strength member (7) being a blended strength member (7) formed with a combination of ARAMID fibers and HMPE fibers, the blended strength member comprising a non-homogeneous distribution of the ARAMID and HMPE fibers, wherein the weight ratio of ARAMID to HMPE in the strength membe...