ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,437, issued on May 26, was assigned to TAIWAN TEXTILE RESEARCH INSTITUTE (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Fabric feature predicting method" was invented by Hung-Yu Lin (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Pei-Te Shen (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Chin-Lun Chu (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Tzu-Yu Chiu (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Yu-Sian Ciou (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fabric feature predicting method includes following operations: measuring multiple first fabrics to generate multiple first fabric actual feature value groups; storing the first fabric actual feature value groups and multiple first fabric information groups of...