ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,159, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TAIWAN TEXTILE RESEARCH INSTITUTE (New Taipei, Taiwan).
"Moisture-response deforming fabric" was invented by Wei-Hsiang Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan), Po-Hsun Huang (New Taipei, Taiwan), Jen-Chi Chao (New Taipei, Taiwan), Ta-Chung An (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Shu-Hui Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A moisture-response deforming fabric includes 40 parts by weight to 70 parts by weight of an ordinary yarn and 30 parts by weight to 60 parts by weight of a moisture-response stretching nylon yarn. A water-vapour permeability index (imt) of the moisture-response deforming fabric is g...