ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,959, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Under Armour Inc. (Baltimore).

"Article of apparel" was invented by Kyle Blakely (Baltimore) and Matthew Trexler (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article of apparel is formed that is effective to regulate the temperature of the wearer. In an embodiment, a thermal regulation composition is obtained comprising a binder, a cooling agent, a latent heat agent, and a heat dissipation agent. The thermal regulation composition is printed to a surface of a textile by pressing the thermal regulation composition against the textile surface such that the binder adheres the cooling agent, latent...