ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,750, issued on April 7, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Textile fabric and method of manufacturing same" was invented by Hyun Dae Cho (Anyang-si, South Korea), Myoung Ryoul Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Seul Yi (Seoul, South Korea), Gu Hwan Kim (Busan, South Korea) and Jin Hun Cha (Busan, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A textile fabric includes a textile fabric layer, a transparent film layer provided on the textile fabric layer, and a surface layer disposed on the transparent film layer. The transparent film layer has a two-layer structure including a first film...