ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,886, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Voith Patent GmbH (Heidenheim, Germany).

"Woven fabric and technical textile" was invented by Johan Einarsson (Oerebro, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A woven fabric has warp threads and weft threads that are interwoven for configuring a textile structure. The woven fabric has a thickness direction as well as a warp direction and a weft direction. The warp threads and/or the weft threads in the thickness direction have a wave-shaped profile. At least some, preferably all, weft threads have a wave-shaped profile in the warp direction, and/or at least some, preferably all, warp threads hav...