ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,352, issued on July 28, was assigned to SKINPROTECT CORPORATION SDN BHD (Selangor, Malaysia).

"Detectable and multi detectable articles" was invented by Khon Pu Foo (Klang, Malaysia), Chin Keong Lim (Klang, Malaysia) and Nurshamila Binti Shaari Balakrishna (Klang, Malaysia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to elastomeric articles such as gloves, compositions for producing the articles and methods for their manufacture. The elastomeric articles contain particles for detectability of the articles (or portions thereof) by metal detectors and/or x-ray detectors. The articles may contain magnetic particles, highly co...