US Patent Issued to Global Textile Alliance Belgium on Feb. 3 for "Textured fabric printing system and method" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,705, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Global Textile Alliance Belgium (Wielsbeke, Belgium).

"Textured fabric printing system and method" was invented by Remy Tack (Wielsbeke, Belgium), Christopher D. Engels (Heverlee, Belgium) and Michael De Smet (Heverlee, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A print apparatus and print method is provided for patterned fabrics, particularly those with surface variations due to threadings. These threadings may be e.g. stitches and/or bindings arranged in the fabric that create the surface variations which create the pattern. The apparatus/method involves a vision system which detects the threadings...