ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,740, issued on April 29, was assigned to JEANOLOGIA, S. L. (Paterna, Spain).

"Method and apparatus for treating a textile fabric" was invented by Vicente Albert Revert (Paterna, Spain), Victoria Puchol Estors (Paterna, Spain) and Vicente Fuster Fuster (Paterna, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for desizing and/or shrinking a textile fabric, the textile fabric having a length and a width, the method including moving, lengthwise, the fabric, and wetting the fabric within a first pool of liquid, the first pool of liquid including water; passing the fabric through a chamber, and in the chamber contacting the ...