ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,210, issued on June 2, was assigned to TECHFLEX INC. (Sparta, N.J.).
"Assembly with integral digital identification encoding" was invented by William Dermody IV (Sparta, N.J.), William Squier (Sparta, N.J.) and Matthew Mercier (Windermere, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is a trackable protective sleeving, which include a filament, a digital identifier secured to the filament, and a hollow structure carrying the filament. The hollow structure may include a plurality of braided fibers, woven fibers, or knit fibers. The hollow structure may be extruded. In one embodiment, the filament and the plurality of fibers may be...