US Patent Issued to TAIWAN TEXTILE RESEARCH INSTITUTE on March 3 for "Fabricating method of temperature-sensing and humidity-controlling fiber" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,717, issued on March 3, was assigned to TAIWAN TEXTILE RESEARCH INSTITUTE (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Fabricating method of temperature-sensing and humidity-controlling fiber" was invented by Wen-Jung Chen (New Taipei, Taiwan), Wei-Hsiang Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Chao-Huei Liu (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature-sensing and humidity-controlling fiber includes a hydrophilic material and a temperature-sensing material. The temperature-sensing material has a lower critical solution temperature (LCST) between 31.2deg C. and 32.5deg C. when a light transmittance thereof is in a range from 3% to 80%, in which a ...