ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,653, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to TIETEX INTERNATIONAL LTD (Spartanburg, S.C.).
"Mattress with flame barrier cap and related method" was invented by Martin Wildeman (Spartanburg, S.C.), Nicholas James Brownless (Spartanburg, S.C.) and Robert Wade Wallace (Salt Lake City).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mattress including a stretchable flame-retardant textile cap incorporating a top panel of flame retardant material operatively connected to a stitch-bonded flame retardant textile skirting with machine direction stretch and recovery properties disposed over a resilient mattress core to provided flame barrier protection to the m...