ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,891, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to TARKETT SPORTS CANADA INC. (Montreal).

"Method for producing an artificial turf" was invented by Ulrich Berghaus (Troisdorf, Germany), Gregory T. Randall (Dalton, Ga.), Jurgen Morton-Finger (Weinheim, Germany) and Dirk Hanuschik (Geilenkirchen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to method for producing an artificial turf, comprising the following steps: providing a carrier material having a top and a bottom, providing a plurality of fibres, wherein each fibre comprises two ends extending from the top of the carrier material and comprising a connected region arranged in...