ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,493, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SINGTEX INDUSTRIAL Co. LTD. (New Taipei, Taiwan).
"Woven brushed elastic fabric and method of making the same" was invented by Kuo-Chin Chen (New Taipei, Taiwan), Sung-Yun Huang (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chia-Cheng Chou (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chih-Wei Chen (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Li-Hsun Chang (New Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A woven brushed elastic fabric includes a fabric blank and a plurality of yarn segments. The fabric blank is formed by interweaving a plurality of first yarns and composite yarns. Each composite yarn is composed of a second yarn and an elastic yarn. The second ...