ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,430, issued on Sept. 22.
"Synthetic fiber ball" was invented by Shih-Chiang Chiang (Taipei City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A synthetic fiber ball and method of manufacturing the same is disclosed. The fiber ball includes a plurality of fibers having a predetermined length bound together with a fastening fiber at a central core. The fibers extend outwardly from the fastening fiber at the central core to form a generally spherical shaped ball. The fibers are heat shrunk in a spinning oven from a generally cylindrical shaped fiber bundle having a predetermined diameter to form the fiber ball. An illumination element is ther...