ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,020, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to LULULEMON ATHLETICA CANADA INC. (Vancouver, Canada).

"Articles with embedded sensors" was invented by John Makowsky (Vancouver, Canada), William Ly (Vancouver, Canada), Chantelle Dawn Murnaghan (Vancouver, Canada), Thomas McCarthy Waller (Vancouver, Canada) and Adrian Ka Ming Lai (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article is provided which includes a flexible body configured to cover part of a user's body, at least one humidity sensor coupled to the flexible body and configured to measure a humidity of the user's skin or an internal microclimate; at least one temperature senso...