US Patent Issued to Piana Nonwovens, Consiglio Nazionale Delle Richerche on Feb. 17 for "Nonwoven smart cushion with in-place functionalized pressure sensing and thermoplastic heat sealed multi-region measurement coupling" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,027, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Piana Nonwovens LLC (Cartersville, Ga.) and Consiglio Nazionale Delle Richerche (Rome).

"Nonwoven smart cushion with in-place functionalized pressure sensing and thermoplastic heat sealed multi-region measurement coupling" was invented by Andrea Piana (Cartersville, Ga.), Michael Stephen Defranks (Cartersville, Ga.), Andy Hollis (Cartersville, Ga.), Sang-Hoon Lim (Cartersville, Ga.), Nicola Coppede (Cartersville, Ga.), Andrea Zappettini (Cartersville, Ga.), Manuele Bettelli (Cartersville, Ga.) and Marco Villani (Cartersville, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples include a functionalized ...