ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,791, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. LTD (Tokyo).

"Electronic textiles" was invented by Avetik Harutyunyan (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Hiroshi Tsujino (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to electronic textiles and more specifically to self-sustaining, interactive electronic textiles, to systems incorporating such electronic textiles, and to uses thereof. In an embodiment, a system to assist with an intended motion of a user is provided. The system includes one or more processors, and an electronic textile. The electronic textile includes a textile substrat...