ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,350, issued on March 11, was assigned to SANKO TEKSTIL ISLETMELERI SAN. VE TIC. A.S. (Bursa, Turkey) and RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN (Groningen, Netherlands).

"Process and apparatus for dyeing textiles" was invented by Nikola Loncar (Groningen, Netherlands), Jitka Eryilmaz (Inegol-Bursa, Turkey), Ece Senel (Inegol-Bursa, Turkey), Gokhan Kaplan (Inegol-Bursa, Turkey), Marco Fraaije (Groningen, Netherlands) and Ozgur Cobanoglu (Inegol-Bursa, Turkey).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to a process and apparatus for dyeing of textiles, to an immobilized enzyme comprised in said apparatus required for carrying out the p...