US Patent Issued to LUMITE on July 28 for "Ripstop material and pool cover" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,632, issued on July 28, was assigned to LUMITE INC. (Alto, Ga.).

"Ripstop material and pool cover" was invented by Alan Sutton (Gainesville, Ga.), Ron Rooks (Suwanee, Ga.) and Greg Hendrix (Cleveland, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A woven fabric material including an array of machine direction yarns and cross-machine direction yarns. The array includes larger denier yarns arranged in an alternating pattern with smaller denier yarns in both the machine direction and the cross-machine direction. The array of machine direction yarns and cross-machine direction yarns is arranged to allow water to pass freely through the woven fabric...