ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,016, issued on July 22, was assigned to Centre for Perceptual and Interactive Intelligence (CPII) Ltd. (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

"Systems, devices and method for three-dimensional surface weaving" was invented by Yeung Yam (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Xiangjia Chen (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Man Lip Lai (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Changling Charlie Wang (Cheshire, Great Britain) and Man Tai Andy Wong (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices and methods for three-dimensional surface weaving are disclosed herein. The system includes a jacquard device, a weaving device and a roller matrix. The jacquard device configured t...