ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,364, issued on July 21, was assigned to Nano Textile Solutions AB (Linkoping, Sweden).
"Size-adjustable woven fabric, wearable item and methods of resizing a fabric" was invented by Samer Issa (Linkoping, Sweden), Erik Khranovskyy (Linkoping, Sweden) and Mykhailo Zhybak (Linkoping, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A size-adjustable woven fabric comprises a first set of threads (10a-10i), each formed of a heat-shrink polymer material, at least one conducting thread (20), formed of an electrically conducting material, wherein the first set of threads (10a-10i) runs substantially parallel with each other, and wherein the conducting...