ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,573, issued on March 31, was assigned to Plus Meditech Co. Ltd. (Tainan City, Taiwan).

"Elastic cloth and protector" was invented by Yueh-Hua Chiang (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Kuo-Wei Lee (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elastic cloth includes an array of unit sheet bodies each including a main sheet body part and a connecting part. The main sheet body part has a first sheet surface surrounded by a first boundary which loops around the first sheet surface. The first boundary is formed by two interconnected first and second lateral sides. The connecting part has a first connecting surface which surrounds and adjo...