ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,108, issued on April 14, was assigned to PORCHER INDUSTRIES (Eclose-Badinieres, France).
"Coated lightweight fabric, in particular for a spinnaker" was invented by Stephane Veran (Aix les Bains, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a fabric for lightweight nautical sails, such as spinnakers, asymmetric spinnakers, and gennakers, for sailboats and other surface vessels, the fabric being formed of continuous polyester warp and weft yarns and being coated on one or both of its two surfaces with a crosslinked polymer, wherein the polyester is poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) having a tenacity greater than or...