ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,526, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Polytex Sportbelage Produktions-GMBH (Grefrath, Germany) and Synthetic Turf Resources (Dalton, Ga.).

"Method of making artificial turf" was invented by Stephan Sick (Baden-Baden, Germany), Thorsten Van Den Berg (Essen, Germany) and Dario Grochla (Bochum, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for making an artificial turf, the method comprising: providing a carrier (308) and an artificial turf fiber (501) incorporated into the carrier such that a first portion of the artificial turf fiber (506) protrudes to a back side of the carrier, a second portion of the artificial turf fiber (302) p...