ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,866, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Inter IKEA Systems B.V. (Ln Delft, Netherlands).
"Liner for upholstered furniture" was invented by Anders Bergner (Halmstad, Sweden) and Gerd Rohde (Lonnsboda, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liner, comprising a layered material in which a carded nonwoven wadding is thermally bonded to a thin carded nonwoven top layer, for upholstered furniture. In the liner, a high proportion of the staple fibers in the top layer are thin bi-component binder fibers. Further, at least 20 wt % of the staple fibers in the wadding is thick staple fibers. Furthermore, also the wadding comprises bi-component...