ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,729, issued on April 29, was assigned to Sanko Tekstil Iletmeleri San. Ve Tic. A.S. (Bursa, Turkey).

"Yarns with conductive elastomeric cores, fabrics and garments formed of the same, and methods for producing the same" was invented by Erdogan Baris Ozden (Bursa, Turkey), Ertug Erkus (Bursa, Turkey), Seref Agzikara (Bursa, Turkey), Erkan Evran (Bursa, Turkey), Ozgur Akdemir (Bursa, Turkey) and Ozgur Cobanoglu (Bursa, Turkey).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stretchable conductive yarn (1) includes a conductive core (2) of one or more elastic fibers (4-6) and an insulating sheath (3) that covers the conductive core. One or more of the e...