ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,351, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to DUOTEC HOLDING SA (Delemont, Switzerland).

"Article of clothing configured to provide signals upon object recognition" was invented by Christian Asbeck (Gevelsberg, Germany), Domenic Blaetgen (Halver, Germany), Lukas Joslowski (Iserlohn, Germany), Arthur Roenisch (Kierspe, Germany), Marc Ungemach (Herne, Germany), Annika Isabell Wallmann (Halver, Germany) and Jens Wallmann (Halver, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article of clothing, in particular a jacket, comprising a plurality of cut parts each cut to size from a fabric and sewn together, the article of clothing including electronic ...