ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,141, issued on July 14, was assigned to ECCO Sko A/S (Bredebro, Denmark).

"Method for dyeing of leather" was invented by Thomas Gogsig (Bredebro, Denmark), Ilona Maria Francisca Coremans (Bredebro, Denmark) and Stojanka Petrusic (Bredebro, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for dyeing and/or retanning of leather objects includes providing a leather object. The leather object has been processed by at least a tanning process. The leather object is introduced into a process chamber. The leather object is subjected in the process chamber to a pressurized fluid. The pressure of the pressurized fluid is controlled to reach a s...