ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,028, issued on March 24, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and INDUSTRIAL COOPERATION FOUNDATION JEONBUK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY (Jeonju-si, South Korea).

"Fiber structure with improved flexibility and responsiveness and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Hong Chan Jeon (Seoul, South Korea), Sung June Park (Jeonju-si, South Korea) and Sang Min Lee (Jeonju-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite fiber structure with improved flexibility and responsiveness, and a method for manufacturing the same, and more particularly, through an interdigitated structu...