ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,367, issued on March 17, was assigned to W. L. Gore & Associates Inc. (Newark, Del.).

"Polyethylene membrane acoustic assembly" was invented by Jason Strid (Newark, Del.), Guy Sbriglia (Newark, Del.), Thomas Tolt (Newark, Del.) and Scott Zero (Newark, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly includes an acoustic device. The acoustic device can include a polyethylene membrane. The polyethylene membrane can have first direction and a second direction, the second direction being orthogonal to the first direction. The polyethylene membrane can have a surface area per volume of at least 39x106/m. The polyethylene membrane can have...