ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,425, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) (Paris), INSTITUT NATIONAL DES SCIENCES APPLIQUEES DE ROUEN NORMANDIE (Saint-Etienne-Du-Rouvray, France), UNIVERSITE DE ROUEN-NORMANDIE (Mont Saint-Aignan, France) and MDB TEXINOV (Saint Didier De La Tour, France).
"Method for modifying a yarn or textile fabric" was invented by Francois Estour (Rouen, France), Benedetta Cornelio (Mont Saint-Aignan, France), Marie Vandesteene (Saint Didier de la Tour, France) and Isabelle Ferreira (Ecully, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for modifying a textile ...