ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,835, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to TAIWAN TEXTILE RESEARCH INSTITUTE (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Breathable and waterproof cloth" was invented by Ying-Chi Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan), Wei-Hung Chen (New Taipei, Taiwan), Li-Chen Chu (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Rih-Sheng Chiang (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A breathable and waterproof non-woven fabric is manufactured by a manufacturing method including the following steps. Performing a kneading process on 87 to 91 parts by weight of a polyester, 5 to 7 parts by weight of a water repellent, and 3 to 6 parts by weight of a flow promoter to form a mixture, in which the poly...