ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,646, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Manufacturing of an inflatable structure" was invented by Erik Hjerpe (Torslanda, Sweden) and Nathan Nuzzo (Stockholm).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to manufacturing an inflatable structure. There is determined one or more contours of at least a portion of an inflatable structure to be manufactured. There is further provided a drop stitch fabric having a first layer and a second layer tethered by drop stitches. Moreover, there is provided along at least a portion of the drop stitch fabric one or more fixation lines comprising c...