US Patent Issued to Voith Patent on Aug. 11 for "Method and extrusion die for making a structuring fabric" (British, American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,136, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Voith Patent GmbH (Heidenheim, Germany).

"Method and extrusion die for making a structuring fabric" was invented by Rowe Rhett (Vicksburg, Miss.), Paul Raymond Riding (Lancashire, Great Britain), Uwe Kockritz (Heidenheim, Germany), Craig Davis (Crystal Springs, Miss.) and Matt Waddle (Flowood, Miss.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extrusion die makes a structuring fabric which has structuring-beads resting on sublayer-beads. The extrusion die has a flat first surface and a flat second surface, the first and second surfaces contact each other along a contact line. The first and second surfaces...