ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,568, issued on May 13, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for heat conducting and biofluid transporting textile" was invented by Yi Cui (Stanford, Calif.), Shanhui Fan (Stanford, Calif.), Yucan Peng (Stanford, Calif.), Wei Li (Stanford, Calif.) and Bofei Liu (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations include a textile apparatus for transporting perspiration and heat, the textile apparatus including a substantially planar and heat-conducting substrate including at least one recess, and a textile film including one or more...