ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,466, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Systes Protection Group US LLC (Northville, Mich.).

"Convolute knit sleeve and method of construction thereof" was invented by Xiaodan Qiu (Northville, Mich.) and Axell Bailon (Northville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A convolute protective textile sleeve having a flexible, tubular wall of knit yarn extending lengthwise along a longitudinal axis between opposite ends includes a plurality of courses extending circumferentially about the longitudinal axis and a plurality of wales extending lengthwise from one of the opposite ends to the other of the opposite ends in generally parallel rel...