US Patent Issued to OTHER LAB on Aug. 19 for "Thermally adaptive fabrics and methods of making same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,964, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to OTHER LAB LLC (San Francisco).

"Thermally adaptive fabrics and methods of making same" was invented by Brent Ridley (Huntington Beach, Calif.), Jean Chang (San Francisco) and Leah Bryson (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermally adaptive material configured to assume a lofted configuration and flat configuration in response to different temperatures. The thermally adaptive material includes an adaptive first textile layer with one or more sections of a first material that has a first thermal expansion coefficient and one or more sections of a second material disposed adjacent ...