US Patent Issued to Hunter Douglas on Nov. 3 for "Laminate" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,813, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Hunter Douglas Inc. (New York).

"Laminate" was invented by Paul G. Swiszcz (Longmont, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is generally directed to a fabric laminate for architectural coverings. The laminate generally includes a nonwoven layer laminated to oriented filaments. The nonwoven layer can be a wet laid nonwoven layer. The filaments can comprise continuous spunbond filaments. Optionally, the laminate can include a third layer of oriented yarns. In one aspect, the yarns can be oriented in the length direction while the polymer filaments can be oriented in the width ...