US Patent Issued to L&P Property Management on Sept. 8 for "Partially foam encased pocketed spring assembly" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,679, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to L&P Property Management Co. (Carthage, Mo.).

"Partially foam encased pocketed spring assembly" was invented by Shaw F. Robertson (Joplin, Mo.), Darrell A. Richmond (Carthage, Mo.) and Jason V. Jewett (Carthage, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A partially foam encased pocketed spring assembly is made in a fully automated assembly machine. A first foam rail is introduced into the assembly machine and glued to upper and lower substrate webs. A first string of pocketed springs is then glued to a side surface of the first foam rail between upper and lower substrate webs and glued to the upper and...