US Patent Issued to Under Armour on June 23 for "Testing fiber loss in fabrics" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,410, issued on June 23, was assigned to Under Armour Inc. (Baltimore).

"Testing fiber loss in fabrics" was invented by Jeremy Stangeland (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining an amount of fiber loss or fiber shedding from a fabric material after washing of the fabric material includes providing a sample of the fabric material within a container, adding water into the container to facilitate contact of the water with a surface of the sample, agitating the water within the container for a predetermined period of time so as to cause fibers to be released from the fabric material and entrained in the water, af...