ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,738, issued on April 29, was assigned to LIGHT TEXTILE INC. (Taichung, Taiwan).

"Article provided with reflective yarn as a safety mechanism" was invented by Ming-Hsien Yao (Taichung, Taiwan) and Shun-Tai Yao (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article provided with reflective yarn has a sheet-shaped object, one or more than one upper threads, at least one lower thread, and one or more than one reflective yarns. The one or multiple upper threads sewn on a font side of the sheet-shaped object, the one or multiple reflective yarns with glass beads are disposed on the front side of the sheet-shaped object without penetrat...