ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,872, issued on Sept. 9.

"Systems and methods of providing networks based on textiles" was invented by Tony Chahine (Toronto), Milad Alizadeh-Meghrazi (Toronto) and Godfried Gysbrecht Edelman (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein include disparate textiles integrated with fixtures or objects within a workspace. The respective disparate textiles may be interconnected via electrical interconnection busses and may include electrical, mechanical, or electro-mechanical structures for sensing data associated with workspace users. The systems may provide, based on the sensed data, actuator output to on...