US Patent Issued to Tintoria Piana US on Nov. 3 for "Foam mattress containing vertically lapped nonwoven material" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,312, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Tintoria Piana US Inc. (Cartersville, Ga.).

"Foam mattress containing vertically lapped nonwoven material" was invented by Sang-hoon Lim (Cartersville, Ga.), Yang Yu (Cartersville, Ga.), Andrea Piana (Cartersville, Ga.), Ariel Guerra (Cartersville, Ga.) and Eric McCann (Cartersville, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid mattress includes a plurality of layers, comprising a top portion predominantly formed of one or more foam layers, which may be of the same or different types, and a bottom portion comprising 50% to 100% vertically lapped nonwoven material layers. The top surface layer of t...