ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,572, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to REIFENHAUSER GMBH & Co. KG MASCHINENFABRIK (Troisdorf, Germany), PFNONWOVENS CZECH S.R.O (Znojmo, Czech Republic) and PFN-GIC A.S. (Znojmo, Czech Republic).

"Bulky nonwoven fabric with enhanced compressibility and recovery" was invented by Jana Kroutilova (Bozice, Czech Republic), Michael Maas (Rosrath, Germany), Zdenek Mecl (Novy Saldorf-Sedlesovice, Czech Republic), Tobias Wagner (Cologne, Germany), Frantisek Klaska (Slavkov u Brna, Czech Republic) and Pavlina Kasparkova (Znojmo, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nonwoven fabric and a method of production of said nonwoven fabric...