ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,280, issued on May 27, was assigned to Hasbro Inc. (Pawtucket, R.I.).
"Manufacturing process for making toy figure clothing" was invented by Chui Hung Luk (Hong Kong, Hong Kong) and Sze Wing Ling (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a garment includes forming a multilayer composition having one or more design elements. The multilayer composition is formed by applying a material that includes the one or more design elements to an elastomeric polymer base layer. The method further includes heating the multilayer composition, and after the multilayer composition has been heated, then aligning ea...