ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,601, issued on April 7, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

"Fabric, and fiber product" was invented by Ryosuke Ebina (Osaka, Japan), Shuichi Nakanishi (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Kenichiro Takumi (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Mei Watanabe (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Masayuki Tsuji (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fabric that includes a loop of a yarn including a voltage generating filament. The fabric has a value of X of 1,000 or more, where X=(A+B)xCxDxE, and wherein: A is a loop angle of the loop of the yarn when the fabric is stretched by 10%, B is a connection angle of the loop of the yarn when the ...