ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,516, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to ROYAL (FUJIAN) INDUSTRIAL Co. LTD. (Xiamen, China).

"Super-soft creep-resistant elastic non-woven fabric" was invented by Qiugen Yang (Xiamen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A super-soft elastic composite material includes a substrate layer having a pleated structure, a hot melt adhesive layer, and an elastic layer, wherein the pleated structure consists of crest portions and trough portions connecting the crest portions. A plurality of elastic elements are arranged at intervals on the substrate layer along a breadthwise direction of the substrate layer, and the elastic layer and the subs...