ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,952, issued on March 4, was assigned to BRRR! Inc. (Atlanta).

"Methods and compositions for films, masterbatch, yarns, fabrics, and articles comprising same" was invented by Cheng-Shang Tsao (Taipei, Taiwan) and Hung-Yuan Su (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, the disclosure relates to cooling films comprising a substrate and one or more cooling materials deposited on the substrate. The disclosed cooling films can be used to prepare the disclosed cooling masterbatch materials. The disclosed cooling masterbatch materials can be used to prepare disclosed cooling yarns. The one or more cooling materials deposi...