ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,253, issued on March 24, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Fill composition for reducing filling weight of resilient products" was invented by Man Sang Manuel Lee (Shanghai), Chen Tai Wong (Shanghai), Yongbin Deng (Shanghai), Dehui Huang (Shanghai), Dongbing Sha (Shanghai), Bin Liu (Shanghai), Xiao Wang (Shanghai) and Bin Zhou (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filling material and method for reducing the amount of filling material required for filling a soft casing to a pre-selected specification, the filling material comprising a blend of polyester fibers having two or more different deniers and providing ...