US Patent Issued to MKB on June 23 for "Tubular knitted geotextiles implementing non-biomass based inert threads, methods of making the same, and erosion sediment and pollution control products made from the same" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,792, issued on June 23, was assigned to MKB COMPANY LLC (Groveport, Ohio).

"Tubular knitted geotextiles implementing non-biomass based inert threads, methods of making the same, and erosion sediment and pollution control products made from the same" was invented by Michael A. Zock (Saxonburg, Pa.) and Jeffrey Karl Szebalskie (Mars, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An erosion, sediment and pollution control product comprises a geotextile which includes at least 10% non-plastic non-biomass based inert threads, in particular basalt or glass threads, and cellulose based filler within the tubular geotextile. The geotextile may be knitte...