US Patent Issued to Columbia Sportswear North America on Dec. 23 for "Multilayered multifunctional heat-management material" (Oregon, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,954, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Columbia Sportswear North America Inc. (Portland, Ore.).

"Multilayered multifunctional heat-management material" was invented by Haskell Beckham (Portland, Ore.), Rebecca Lynn Johnson (Portland, Ore.) and David Milton Anderson (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat-management material that includes a base fabric having an externally facing surface and an internally facing surface; and a plurality of multilayered multifunctional heat-management elements coupled to the externally facing surface of the base material wherein the heat-management material has weighted average thermal emittanc...