ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,393, issued on March 31, was assigned to Owens Corning Intellectual Capital LLC (Toledo, Ohio).

"Method of forming a web from fibrous materials" was invented by Glenn Haley (Granville, Ohio), David J. Gaul (Granville, Ohio) and Michael T. Pellegrin (Newark, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanically entangled, in-line formed, packs of glass fibers are mechanically entangled differently at different portions of the web. In one exemplary embodiment, in-line formed glass fibers are mechanically entangled by any combination of two or more entangling devices. The two or more entangling devices may be the same or different. In one e...