ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,884, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Johns Manville (Denver).

"Binder-consolidated textile fabric, method for its manufacture and its use" was invented by Werner Groh (Schwabmunchen, Germany), Agnes Frick (Gunzberg, Germany), Kiarash Alavi (Littleton, Colo.), Uranchimeg Lester (Littleton, Colo.) and Ameya Natu (Highlands Ranch, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention concerns a novel binder system and its use for consolidating textile fabrics, as well as to products containing such consolidated textile fabrics. The materials according to the invention are suitable for the manufacture of reinforcing inserts, optionally i...