ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,155, issued on June 17, was assigned to SOUTH BAY INTERNATIONAL INC. (Fontana, Calif.) and Aldo New-Tech Materials (Jiaxing) Co. Ltd. (Jiaxing, China).

"Slow-release silk thread and method for preparing the same" was invented by Jiajun Zhu (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A slow-release silk thread and a method for preparing the slow-release silk thread are provided. The slow-release silk thread includes a substrate layer, a slow-release layer, and a protective layer. The slow-release layer is provided between the substrate layer and the protective layer. The slow-release layer includes porous microspheric particles in...