US Patent Issued to L&P Property Management on April 21 for "Pocketed spring assembly including cushion pads and buckling members with additives" (Arkansas, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,993, issued on April 21, was assigned to L&P Property Management Co. (Carthage, Mo.).

"Pocketed spring assembly including cushion pads and buckling members with additives" was invented by Bruce W. Peterson (Austin, Texas), Matthew D. McKnight (Fort Smith, Ark.) and Takayuki Hironaka (Fort Smith, Ark.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pocketed spring assembly comprises a plurality of parallel strings of springs, each string joined to at least one adjacent string, each string comprising one piece of fabric folded into first and second opposed plies. Outer pockets are formed along each string by transverse seams joining the first and se...