ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,271, issued on March 24, was assigned to GUANGZHOU JINGYILVFANG TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD (Guangzhou City, China).

"Reactive digital printing methods and systems, printed fabric obtained thereby and related clothing items" was invented by Wenjie Fang (Guangzhou City, China), Xinlou Qu (Guangzhou City, China), Bei Li (Guangzhou City, China), Yong Deng (Guangzhou City, China) and Zhipeng Zhong (Guangzhou City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reactive digital printing method can be performed with the following steps: 1) applying a primer to a fabric to be printed; (2) applying an ink containing a dye with multi-reactive groups to the f...