ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,871, issued on June 23, was assigned to DEE LAB Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Cold protection material" was invented by Takahiro Okugawa (Osaka, Japan) and Naoki Honda (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cold protection material includes: a front side fabric constituting a front fabric of the cold proof garment or constituting a fabric disposed inside the front fabric; a back side fabric disposed on a back side of the front side fabric; two partition members forming a space between the front side fabric and the back side fabric; a filler made of down or feathers stored in the space; an air permeable member disposed to cover a ...